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| Public Speaking Quotes |
Here in Verbal Communication Skills, we covered tips and advice on interpersonal communication, presentation and public speaking.
Talking about public speaking or speaking in the public, the most popular topic is how to overcome public speaking phobia or glossophobia.
It is no secret that even professional speakers do have fear of public speaking. The difference is they know how to harness and use it to their advantage.
As Mark Twain said: "There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.”
So, let's check some of my favorite public speaking quotes:
"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." - Dale Carnegie
"Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain
"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening." - Dorothy Sarnoff
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." - Mark Twain
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Grasp the subject, the words will follow." - Cato The Elder
"A good orator is pointed and impassioned." - Marcus T. Cicero
“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
