Inspirational Speaking Quotes

I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.

It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.

I give a speech at some colleges and corporations called 'Performing Your Life: An Evening with Jeffrey Tambor.' I get asked a lot of questions, and people say, 'Your stories are wonderful. You should write a book.'

For years I taught in universities and high schools for classes of 30 or 35 students. Now I teach in very large venues with thousands of people in the audience. I used to have notes. Now I just let go and let God. I just allow it to come, and I didn't do that before. I never even used the word "God" for twenty or twenty-five years. Now it just rolls out of my mouth all the time.

If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.

No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

I preach with the hope that whoever is inspired, encouraged, intrigued, curious by my life on any level, whether it be parents saying they showed my video to their kids because they were complaining. It is the hope that that parent will go a bit deeper and know that ultimately Nick actually puts his hope into something bigger than himself. He puts it in Jesus Christ.

Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

I come alive the most when I am talking with people about following their dreams. Inspirational speaking is something I am very passionate about and will be doing more of.

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

There is no true orator who is not a hero.

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.