If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.

There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.

I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.

Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.

A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”.

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.

The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.

The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant!

Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".

Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their followers. They make impacts.

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

A few will say no, but many will say yes…remember that every No will get you closer to the many yeses as long as you have a system that works for you.

And finally have fun with it. If you’re not having fun, your speakers won’t have fun, and your participants won’t have fun. No matter what happens, remember that marketing should be fun, and life should be enjoyed.

Speakers are very busy people, with their own lives.Once you remember that sentence then it’s easy to know how to treat them and attract them.

People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don’t. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.

Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.

None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.

When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Speech is the small change of silence.

If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.