Speaking Quotes

"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.

Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

Say what you have to say, and then stop.

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

Donald Trump's impulsivity concerns me. He's fanning the flames of xenophobia and Islamophobia and the American people are speaking out against it.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.