We got a lot of positive feedback on our last set of 25 public speaking quotes, so we decided to dig a little deeper and find some more awesome quotes for you guys. These are some great words from some great and notable people in the presentation, public speaking and communication sectors. Do what you will with them, whether that’s memorizing them, putting them on your fridge or even just scanning them here for inspiration. They are fun, inspiring and useful for many aspects of communication.

1. 25 More
Awesome
PUBLIC SPEAKING QUOTES

2. Be sincere; !
be brief; !
be seated. !
Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. Courage is what it takes to
stand up and speak; !
courage is also what it takes
to sit down and listen.!
Winston Churchill

4. Best way to conquer
stage fright is to
know what you’re
talking about.!
Michael H Mescon

5. Find out what’s
keeping them up
nights and offer
hope. Your theme
must be an answer
to their fears.!
Gerald C Myers

6. Grasp the subject, !
the words will follow.!
Cato The Elder

7. Make sure you have
finished speaking
before your audience
has finished listening.!
Dorothy Sarnoff

8. It’s quite simple. Say
what you have to say
and when you come
to a sentence with a
grammatical ending,
sit down.!
Winston Churchill

9. Speak clearly, if you
speak at all; carve
every word before
you let it fall.!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

10. It’s not how strongly you feel about your topic, it’s how
strongly they feel about your topic after you speak.!
Tim Salladay

11. 99% of the population is
afraid of public speaking,
and of the remaining 1%,
99% of them have
nothing original and
interesting to say.!
Jarod Kintz

12. In presentations
or speeches less
really is more.!
Stephen Keague

13. A wise man speaks
because he has
something to say; !
a fool because he has
to say something.!
Plato

14. You are responsible to
your audience, not for
your audience.!
Bill Gove

15. Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but
ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking
come 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 men’s minds
take in quickly what you
say, learn its lesson, and
retain it faithfully. Every
word that is unnecessary
only pours over the side of
a brimming mind.!
Cicero

18. The finest language
is mostly made up
of simple,
unimposing words.!
George Eliot

19. Speeches measured
by the hour die with
the hour.!
Thomas Jefferson

20. Say not always what you
know, but always know
what you say.!
Claudius

21. If I went back to college
again, I’d concentrate on two
areas: learning to write and
to speak before an audience.
Nothing in life is more
important than the ability to
communicate effectively.!
Gerald R. Ford

22. No one ever
complains about
a speech being
too short!!
Ira Hayes

23. Don’t use words too big
for the subject. Don’t say
infinitely when you mean
very. Otherwise you’ll have
no word left when you
want to talk about
something really infinite.!
C.S. Lewis

24. In making a speech one must
study three points: first, the
means of producing
persuasion; second, the
language; third the proper
arrangement of the various
parts of the speech.!
Aristotle

25. Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the
listener. The latter must prepare to receive it
according to the motion it takes.!
Michel de Montaigne

26. 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.!
William Hazlitt