Famous Quotations

This collection of popular sayings and quotations is compiled to not only improve your English but also the inspiring words of wisdom can make a positive impact on you.
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Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're always right.
— Henry Ford
Topic: Potential

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
— Mark Twain
Topic: Potential

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
— Dag Hammarskjöld
Topic: Potential

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
— Mark Twain

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.
— Ethel Merman

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
— Rob Gilbert

The secret of being a bore, is to tell everything.
— Voltaire

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

Ask yourself, ''If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across.
— Jeff Dewar

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
— Ira Hayes

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