Public Speaking, Quotes

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Talent
Talent is the gift plus passion -- a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
Neil Simon

Teamwork - Diversity
Teams begin with individuals. Respect for the different ways that different people process information is an excellent first step toward helping diverse personalities reach consensus.
Patrick Townsend in Quality in Action

Teamwork
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly

Tears
The soul would have no rainbows had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cherry

Television
The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.
Jerry Seinfeld

Terrorists
We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

Thanksgiving
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which everyone has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which everyone has some.
Charles Dickens

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.  
Erma Bombeck  

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
William Jennings Bryan

Time - Wasting Time
Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury, even more sleep than necessary for health (six to at most eight hours), is worthy of absolute moral condemnation.
Max Weber

The days come and go, but they say nothing. And if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Timing - Words
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain

Today
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. Henry Ford

Some there are who torment themselves afresh with the memory of what has past. Others afflict themselves with the apprehension of evil to come. Very ridiculous are both. For the one does not concern us now, and the other is not yet. One should count each day as a separate life.
Seneca

Tomorrow
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering

Tragedy
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end.
George W. Bush

Trees
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heavens.
Rabindranath Tagore

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away.
John Muir

Trials - Opportunities
Our trials are great opportunities, but all too often we simply see them as large obstacles.
L.B. Cowman in Streams in the Desert

Troubles
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles, by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain

True
You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough, to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner

Trust
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off.  You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom

Useful
Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.
Jack Herbert

Valor
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg

Value - Success
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Vanity
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Vision
If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay that way, but if you treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be.
Goethe

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

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