Quotes on Speaking In Public

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.