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"According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? That means that if you're at a funeral, the average person would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy."

— Jerry Seinfeld

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

— Mark Twain

"The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."

— George Jessel

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. And if you can't, at least give a good speech pretending you are."

— Oscar Wilde

"If it is not right, do not say it. If it is not true, do not say it."

— Marcus Aurelius

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. To speak well is to live twice."

— Cicero

"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. Public speaking is no different."

— Bertrand Russell

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

— Winston Churchill

"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest."

— Winston Churchill

"There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars."

— Mark Twain

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

— Mark Twain

"Speak, so that I may see you."

— Socrates

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

— Rudyard Kipling

"The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives."

— Lilly Walters

"All great speakers were bad speakers at first."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

— Albert Einstein

"The most precious things in speech are the pauses."

— Ralph Richardson