The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

by Dale Carnegie

Try your best to develop an ability to let others look into your head and heart. Learn to make your thoughts, your ideas, clear to others, individually, in groups, in public. You will find, as you improve in your effort to do this, that you—your real self—are making an impression, an impact, on people such as you never made before.

Your self-confidence strengthens as you learn to speak to others, and your whole personality grows warmer and better. This means that you are better off emotionally, and if you are better off emotionally, you are better off physically.

The will to succeed must be a vital part of the process of becoming an effective speaker.

Don’t wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance.

I found that learning to speak in public is nature’s own method of overcoming self-consciousness and building up courage and self-confidence. Why? Because speaking in public makes us come to grips with our fears.

The chief cause of your fear of public speaking is simply that you are unaccustomed to speak in public.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

It is detail that makes conversation sparkle.

If a speaker believes a thing earnestly enough and says it earnestly enough, he will get adherents to his cause,

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The audience must feel that there is a message being delivered straight from the mind and heart of the speaker to their minds and their hearts.