2. Be sincere; !be brief; !be seated. !Franklin D.
Roosevelt
3. Courage is what it takes tostand up and speak; !courage is
also what it takesto sit down and listen.!Winston Churchill
4. Best way to conquerstage fright is toknow what youretalking
about.!Michael H Mescon
5. Find out whatskeeping them upnights and offerhope. Your
thememust be an answerto their fears.!Gerald C Myers
6. Grasp the subject, !the words will follow.!Cato The
Elder
7. Make sure you havenished speakingbefore your audiencehas
nished listening.!Dorothy Sarnoff
8. Its quite simple. Saywhat you have to sayand when you cometo
a sentence with agrammatical ending,sit down.!Winston
Churchill
9. Speak clearly, if youspeak at all; carveevery word beforeyou
let it fall.!Oliver Wendell Holmes
10. Its not how strongly you feel about your topic, its
howstrongly they feel about your topic after you speak.!Tim
Salladay
11. 99% of the population isafraid of public speaking,and of
the remaining 1%,99% of them havenothing original andinteresting to
say.!Jarod Kintz
12. In presentationsor speeches lessreally is more.!Stephen
Keague
13. A wise man speaksbecause he hassomething to say; !a fool
because he hasto say something.!Plato
14. You are responsible toyour audience, not foryour
audience.!Bill Gove
15. Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, butideas that rouse
and set multitudes thinkingcome as gold from the mines.!A.
Owen
16. ! ! ! !Be skillful in speech, !! ! ! !that you may be
strong.!Merikare
17. When you wish to instruct,be brief; that mens mindstake in
quickly what yousay, learn its lesson, andretain it faithfully.
Everyword that is unnecessaryonly pours over the side ofa brimming
mind.!Cicero
18. The nest languageis mostly made upof simple,unimposing
words.!George Eliot
19. Speeches measuredby the hour die withthe hour.!Thomas
Jefferson
20. Say not always what youknow, but always knowwhat you
say.!Claudius
21. If I went back to collegeagain, Id concentrate on twoareas:
learning to write andto speak before an audience.Nothing in life is
moreimportant than the ability tocommunicate effectively.!Gerald R.
Ford
22. No one evercomplains abouta speech beingtoo short!!Ira
Hayes
23. Dont use words too bigfor the subject. Dont sayinnitely
when you meanvery. Otherwise youll haveno word left when youwant to
talk aboutsomething really innite.!C.S. Lewis
24. In making a speech one muststudy three points: rst,
themeans of producingpersuasion; second, thelanguage; third the
properarrangement of the variousparts of the speech.!Aristotle
25. Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to thelistener.
The latter must prepare to receive itaccording to the motion it
takes.!Michel de Montaigne
26. In public speaking, wemust appeal either to theprejudices
of others, or tothe love of truth andjustice. If we think merelyof
displaying our ownability, we shall ruin everycause we
undertake.!William Hazlitt
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