- Dale Carnegie
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
-Marcus T. Cicero
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.
- Joseph Chatfield
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
- Joseph Conrad
There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience.
- Alexander Gregg
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
- Herbert Gardner
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
- Lilly Walters
If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.
- Harvey Diamond
Best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.
- Michael H Mescon
There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.
- Mark Twain
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
- Ira Hayes
90% of how well the talk will go is determined before the speaker steps on the platform.
- Somers White
It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.
- Wayne Burgraff
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
- Sir Ralph Richardson
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- Cato The Elder
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
- Carl W. Buechner
It's not how strongly you feel about your topic, it's how strongly they feel about your topic after you speak.
- Tim Salladay
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.
- Frances Rodman
Words have incredible power.
They can make people's hearts soar,
or they can make people's hearts sore.
-Dr. Mardy Grothe
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain