Speakers Quotes

“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.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“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.”
― John Paul Warren

“There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.”
― John Paul warren

“A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”.”
― John Paul Warren

“I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.”
― John Paul Warren

“Honestly, if everyone likes what you say something is wrong with your message.”
― Ashley Ormon

“Your circumstances do NOT define you. Expect a GRAND finale.”
― John Paul Warren

“Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.”
― John Paul Warren

“Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".”
― John Paul Warren

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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.”
― John Paul Warren

“Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.”
― John Paul Warren

“Word-magic comes at a cost, you see, as power always does. Words draw their vitality from their writers, and thus the strength of a word is limited by the strength of its human vessel.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.”
― John Paul Warren

“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!”
― John Paul Warren

“Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.”
― John Paul Warren

“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.”
― John Paul Warren

“Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.”
― John Paul warren

“Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.”
― John Paul Warren

“It's not good for one's view of human nature, that's for sure. You begin to see, when invitations are coming from festivals and colleges to come read (for an hour for a hefty sum of money), that the institutions are head-hunting for trophy writers. Most don't particularly care about your writing or what you're trying to say. You're there as a human object, one that has won a prize.”
― Annie Proulx

“Most people are interested in success, but are too busy and distracted by their habituated day to day activities, to be COMMITTED to creating real success in every area of their lives.”
― Tony Dovale

“No one should have to pass someone else's ideological purity test to be allowed to speak. University life- along with civic life- dies without the free exchange of ideas. In the face of intimidation, educators must speak up, no shut down. Ours is a position of unique responsibility: We teach people not what to think, but how to think. Realizing and accepting this has made me- an eminently replaceable, untenured, gay, mixed-race woman with PTSD- realize that no matter the precariousness of my situation, I have a responsibility to model the appreciation of difference and care of thought I try to foster in my students. If I, like so many colleagues nationwide, am afraid to say what I think, am I not complicit in the problem? [Lucia Martinez Valdivia]”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“Truth: Many of the speakers, who think they are true observers, are used to point out common facts.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“To deal with the fear of public speaking, dare to speak even while you are afraid. Do it afraid!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Too long speeches are boring even if they're full of humour. Short speeches are very entertaining even if they lack humour. Be concise. Be simple. Make your speech short but very valuable.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Great speakers you wish to be like, were products of mistakes. Mistakes shaped their speaking skills. If you're afraid of making mistakes, you will remain there for so long!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Being a great writer or speaker requires the appreciation of words, and that of the limits of language.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Before being able to speak beautifully, you must think beautifully.”
― Sergey Vedenyo

“If you keep the distinction between speech and violence clear in your mind, then many more options are available to you. As Marcus Aurelius advised, "Choose not to be harmed- and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed- and you haven't been." The more ways your identity can be threatened by casual daily interactions, the more valuable it will be to cultivate the Stoic (and Buddhist, and CBT) ability to not be emotionally reactive, to not let others control your mind and your cortisol levels... words don't cause stress directly; they can only provoke stress and suffering in a person who has interpreted those words as posing a threat.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia