How to Develop Self-Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking Quotes

“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.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self-Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking

“You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.” —K.D. Lang”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” —John Henrik Clarke”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“You may possibly bore people if you talk about things and ideas, but you can hardly fail to hold their attention when you talk about people.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Strive to say precisely what you mean, to express the most delicate nuances of thought. That is not always easy—not even for experienced writers.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Books! There is the secret! He who would enrich and enlarge his stock of words must soak and tan his mind constantly in the vats of literature.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“We have only four contacts with the world, you and I. We are evaluated and classified by four things: by what we do, by how we look, by what we say, and by how we say it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” —Don Miguel Ruiz”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Napoleon declared repetition to be the only serious principle of rhetoric. He knew that because an idea which was clear to him was not always proof that it was instantly grasped by others. He knew that it takes time to comprehend new ideas, that the mind must be kept focussed on them. In short, he knew they must be repeated. Not in exactly the same language. People will rebel at that, and rightly so. But if the repetition is couched in fresh phraseology, if it is varied, your hearers will never regard it as repetition at all.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“every talk, regardless of whether the speaker realizes it or not, has one of four major goals. What are they? 1. To make something clear. 2. To impress and convince. 3. To get action. 4. To entertain.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand lucid in order, solid and at hand; spend not your words on trifles but condense; strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense; press to the close with vigor, once begun, and leave – how hard the task.” —Joseph Story”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“There is no other human being in the world like you. Hundreds of millions of people have two eyes and a nose and a mouth, but none of them look precisely like you; and none of them have exactly your traits and methods and cast of mind. Few of them will talk and express themselves just as you do when you are speaking naturally. In other words, you have an individuality. As a speaker, it is your most precious possession. Cling to it. Cherish it. Develop it. It is the spark that will put force and sincerity into your speaking. “It is your only real claim to importance.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“A good window does not call attention to itself. It merely lets in the light. A good speaker is like that. He is so natural that his hearers never notice his manner of speaking; they are conscious only of his matter.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Five minutes of vivid, energetic concentration will produce greater results than days of mooning about in a mental haze. “One intense hour,” wrote Henry Ward Beecher, “will do more than dreamy years.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” —Marie Curie”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“A Speech ought to be prepared somewhat in a lavish and discriminating spirit. Assemble a hundred thoughts, and discard ninety. Collect more material, more information, than there is any possibility of employing. Get it for the additional confidence it will give you, for the sureness of touch. Get it for the effect it will have on your mind and heart and whole manner of speaking. This is a basic, important factor of preparation; yet it is constantly ignored by speakers, both in public and private.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“A well-prepared speech is already nine-tenths delivered.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” —Arthur Ashe”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Would you like to know in what parts of your speech are most likely to reveal your inexperience or your expertness, your inaptitude of your fitnesse? I’ll tell you: in the opening and the closing. There is an old saying in the theatre, referring, of course, to actors, that goes like this: “By their entrances and their exits shall ye know them.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” —Alexander Graham Bell”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“Begin on some note that goes straight to the selfish interests of the audience. That is one of the best of all possible ways to start. It is sure to get attention. We are mightily interested in the things that touch us significantly, momentously.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“It is difficult, it is arduous, for the average audience to follow abstract statements very long, Illustrations are easier to listen to, far easier. Then why not start with one?”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

“One can often arouse curiosity by beginning with an effect, and making people anxious to hear the cause.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking