Famous Quotes For an Awesome Presentation

A well-placed quote can transform the opening of any presentation – it builds instant credibility and captures attention before you say a single original word. These are some of our favorite quotes to use in presentation skills training workshops and coaching sessions.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

– Mother Teresa

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

– Maya Angelou

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

– Henry Ford

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

– Vince Lombardi

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

– Charles Swindoll

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.

– Oprah Winfrey

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

– Jimmy Dean

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

– Audrey Hepburn

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

– Les Brown

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

– Napoleon Hill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

– Mark Twain

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

– Michael Jordan

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