We've ranked the top motivational speakers from around the world, based on their popularity. Seeing these top motivating speakers interact with your audience is a great way to improve your own communication skills. From Tony Robbins to Nick Vujicic, here are 15 of the most popular motivational speakers from around the world. Nick Vujicic is an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with Phocomelia, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of legs and arms.
Robert Kiyosaki is an American businessman, investor, self-help author, educator, motivational speaker, financial education activist, financial commentator, and radio personality. He is the founder of Rich Dad Company, which provides financial and business education to people through books, videos, games, seminars, blogs, training and workshops. Eric Thomas is an American speaker, author and motivational minister. After becoming known as a motivational speaker, Thomas founded a company to offer educational consulting, executive training and sports development. Here is my list of the top 10 motivational speakers in the world.
Nick Vujicic was born on December 4, 1982 in Melbourne, Australia. Vujicic was born with Tetra-Amelia syndrome, a very rare disorder in which someone is born with the absence of all four limbs. This led him to found his own non-profit organization called “Life Without Limbs”. Nick Vujicic is a real inspiration to all of us, and if you've seen some of his motivating speeches on YouTube, you'll realize how much he's been able to adapt to a life without limbs. Brian Tracy was born on January 5, 1944 in Vancouver, Canada, and is the CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company that specifically aims to help individuals and organizations develop, train and grow.
Robin Sharma was born in 1964 in Nepal, and a recent graduate of Dalhousie University Law School, he became a professional lawyer. But he went much further in his career than being a fully qualified and successful lawyer. Wayne Dyer was born on May 10, 1940 in Detroit, and spent most of his childhood in an orphanage. The first book Dyer wrote now has more than 35 million copies sold and he has proceeded to continue his conference tours, release several audio tapes and publish a regular flow of books. Zig Ziglar was born on November 6th 1926 in Coffee County Alabama. Ziglar has 11 siblings and at the age of five his father died of a stroke and his sister died two days later.
Zig served in the military from 1935 to 1946 during World War II. Ziglar met his wife Jean when he was just 17 years old and after the war he began working as a salesman for many different companies eventually becoming the vice president of Automotive Performance. Zig Ziglar has received a lot of wisdom over the years and is definitely one of the best motivating speakers in the world. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30th 1947 in Austria. We all know him as the world champion in professional bodybuilding and there is a very inspiring story behind Arnie's success in bodybuilding.
Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian army at the age of 18 for 1 year which at that time was mandatory for all 18-year-old men. Les Brown was born on February 17th 1945 in Miami Florida. He was adopted by Mamie Brown and while in elementary school he was declared “mentally retarded educably”. Eric Thomas born and raised in Detroit became homeless at age 16 but decided that he wanted to have a better life for himself to become someone with a life he could be proud of. E T's speeches are so popular that you'll see it appear in approximately 90% of the motivational videos that others create and upload to YouTube using compilations of clips speeches and music. I hope you enjoyed this list of the 10 best motivational speakers in the world.
Many of these speakers appear in some of the videos that we include in our new list of definitive motivations for the gym. Take a look and see what you think. Tony Robbins is arguably the world's most influential motivational speaker of all time. In addition to giving a compelling motivational talk Robbins is also a life coach author and philanthropist.
For more than 40 years he has participated prominently in seminars around the world especially those focused on personal development entrepreneurship leadership success and wealth management. Robbins is also known for his numerous infomercials and self-help tutorials. Some of his notable books include Unlimited Powers (198) and Awaken The Giant Within (199). Throughout his illustrious career Tony Robbins has rubbed shoulders with prominent figures such as Bill Gates Richard Branson Oprah Winfrey Warren Buffett etc.
In conclusion we can say that there are many great motivational speakers, each with their own unique style that can inspire us to reach our goals or dreams no matter how difficult they may seem at first glance.
