Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking Quotes

“There is only one security, and when you’ve lost that security, you’ve lost everything you’ve got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself And when you lose that confidence, you’ve lost the only security you can have.... Self-confidence is self-determinism. One’s belief in one’s ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he’s got the universe in his pocket. And when he hasn’t got that, not all the pearls in China nor all the grain and corn in Iowa can give him security, because that’s the only security there is.”
― Dale Carnegie, Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking

“Foresee how you are going to begin when the mind is fresh to grasp every word you utter. Foresee what impression you are going to leave last—when nothing else follows to obliterate it.”
― Dale Carnegie, Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking

“Draw yourself up to your full height and look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as confidently as if every one of them owed you money.”
― Dale Carnegie, Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking

“Don’t speak until you are sure you have something to say, and know just what it is; then say it, and sit down.’” This “hard-headed old countryman” ought to have told Roosevelt of another aid in overcoming nervousness. He ought to have added: “It will help you to throw off your embarrassment if you can find something to do before an audience—if you can exhibit something, write a word on the blackboard or point out a spot on the map, or move a table or throw open a window, or shift some books and papers—any physical action with a purpose behind it may help you to feel more at home.”
― Dale Carnegie, Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking

“Draw yourself up to your full height and look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as confidently as if every one of them owed you money. Imagine that they do. Imagine that they have assembled there to bet you for an extension of credit. The psychological effect on you will be beneficial.”
― Dale Carnegie, Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking