Public Speaking Quotes

Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.

Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Great losses are great lessons.

€7, 500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

In a democracy government is the God.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.