How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking

Courage is one step ahead of fear.”

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”

—Tori Amos

Do not imagine that your case is unusually difficult. Even those who afterwards became the most eloquent representatives of their generation were, at the outset of their careers, afflicted by this blinding fear and self-consciousness.

Mark Twain, the first time he stood up to lecture, felt as if his mouth were filled with cotton and his pulse were speeding for some prize cup.

The late Jean Jaurès, t

What such a man needs is not courage, but nerve control and cool-headedness.

FOURTH
PRACTISE! PRACTISE! PRACTISE!

“It will help you to throw off your embarrassment if you can find something to do before an audience

Don’t speak until you are sure you have something to say, and know just what it is; then say it, and sit down.

blind leading the blind.

FIRST
START WITH A STRONG AND PERSISTENT DESIRE

Keep your mind on it. Keep your heart in it. Know it like the back of your hand. Believe it feelingly. Then talk as if you were determined to say it. Do that, and the chances are ten to one that you will soon be master of the occasion and master of yourself.