Top 35 Public Speaking Quotes

Like most people, I hate public speaking.

Public speaking is something I fear more than death itself.

I’m shy at public speaking, which is tough.

Sorry, public speaking isn’t really my strong side.

I have a fear of public speaking. It’s very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they’re not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

We don’t always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frightened of public speaking and can’t imagine they might feel different as a result of training. Don’t assume you know how much potential you have. Sometimes the only way to know what you can do is to test yourself.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.

I failed public speaking in grade school, ’cause I was so nervous and scared.

For many years, I didn’t even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I’ve always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that’s made all the difference.

I’ve always loved public speaking, and that’s something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

Public speaking is the number-one fear… even over death!

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I’m no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I’m fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Doing stand-up is not normal. People fear public speaking above all other things, and I am no different.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it’s not easy at all; we’re used to hiding behind masks.

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn’t wait to get off the stage.

I fell into acting because I was really shy, and so at night after work, I took public speaking and improv classes, and I started going to auditions sort of as a dare. That was my version of ‘Fear Factor.’

I remember the first time I went on live TV I had to cut a promo, and I spoke about this on Lillian Garcia’s podcast Chasing Glory, but I’m not very good at public speaking.

In high school, I didn’t know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

There was kind of a pivotal moment in my life in junior high school when my English teacher told me I should be a part of the public speaking competition.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people’s eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.

I’d rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It’s very exposing.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I’ve gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, ‘I’m a YouTuber,’ then that’s easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it’s never fine. In front of adults, it’s like, ‘Ahhhh they’re going to judge me.’

I didn’t go to fancy schools or come from money or from a family that valued law or public speaking in any shape or form.

I think you’ve got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don’t like public speaking or don’t socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.

I enjoy my public speaking. That’s what I love doing. It’s what I’m good at.

Well I started out as a dancer, so I was used to this performing – performance arts. Started out getting used to being on stage. As I got a lot older that became public speaking or debate.

With real estate, it’s location, location, location. In public speaking, it’s acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.