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“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.” -John Ford

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.” -D. H. Lawrence

“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.” -Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

“What we say is important… for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” -Jim Beggs

“If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.” -Dianna Booher

“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.” -Dale Carnegie

“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” - Mark Twain

“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.” -Marcus T. Cicero

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.” - Joseph Chatfield

“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.” - Joseph Conrad

“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience.” - Alexander Gregg

“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.” - Lilly Walters

“If you don’t know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.” - Harvey Diamond

“Best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you’re talking about.” - Michael H Mescon

“There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.” - Mark Twain

“No one ever complains about a speech being too short!” - Ira Hayes

“90% of how well the talk will go is determined before the speaker steps on the platform.” - Somers White

“It takes one hour of preparation for

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