Christmas Speeches: Short, Simple and Sincere
Keeping your speech short, simple and sincere will help keep the mood light and right! Use the Christmas Speeches template below to focus your thoughts and then to create your speech outline. It's an easy step-by-step process. 1. Who is your speech for? Is it family, friends, work colleagues, club members...? What do they want or expect to hear? Is it stories about the events of the year shared by everybody, the company's triumphs or challenges...? Does the occasion suit light hearted humor or is solemn more appropriate? Knowing exactly who the audience is will help you choose the tone and content of the speech. 2. What is the purpose of your speech? Are you aiming to inspire people? Do you wish to unite them? Perhaps you want to thank them? Maybe you want them to laugh and relax. Perhaps it is a combination. Knowing the main purpose behind your speech will guide your choice of theme, tone and content. 3. Where is the speech being delivered? The venue or setting can change how you deliver it. If it's an intimate family setting around the dinner table you won't need either a lecturn on a raised stage or a microphone but in a hall in order to be seen and heard they might be absolutely necessary. 4. What theme is appropriate for the audience? A theme is a thread to hang your speech on. It unites it. To keep your speech simple choose one. Suitable themes for Christmas speeches are:
It's easier to begin with the body or middle of your speech because this is where you express your main points or ideas of your chosen theme. You will add the conclusion and beginning later. Select 3 main points. Start with the most important first. For each point you make give one or two examples to illustrate it. When you give your speech you'll link the points with transitions. (If you need more explanation of transitions you'll find it here on this page: how to write a speech.)
Conclusions of Christmas speeches should leave your audience full of hope - looking forward to coming events, united and with a sense of gratitude. To end well, reinforce your theme, summarise your main points and finish with strong statement or maybe a quotation from those below that will resonate on in the minds of your audience. 7. Organise or outline the Introduction of your Christmas speech The beginning of your speech:
Tips for delivering Christmas Speeches
Quotations for Christmas Speeches Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. Mary Ellen Chase If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away. Unknown Heap on the wood! The wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Sir Walter Scott I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the word seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. Taylor Caldwell Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. Peg Bracken Christmas Day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. Phillips Brooks Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. Oren Arnold The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. Henry David Thoreau The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself,like a spider,in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes. LeoTolstoy It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand. Mother Teresa He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree. Unknown Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. Bing Crosby The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. Burton Hillis Christmas happens everywhere every time someone reaches out to touch another life with love Carol Duerksen More Than Slightly Jaundiced Christmas Quotations *Use with care! Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred. George Bernard Shaw From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. Katharine Whitehorn I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple
Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven. I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. Go well writing and delivering your Christmas Speeches! Return to the top of the Christmas Speeches page Look over the Christmas speech sample outline Return to home page Check the site map for further speech help
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