(329 quotes found)
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs on Mars?" When no one laughed, I was real embarrassed. I don't think people should make you feel that way.”
Jack Handy
“Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.”
Dale Carnegie
“The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.”
John Powell
“The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.”
Clarence B. Kelland
“Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum”
Austin O'Malley
“if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
Sir Ken Robinson
“I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.”
Anthony Robbins
