Convincing Speech Quotes

Mr. Lincoln is one of Nature’s orators, using his rare powers solely and effectively to elucidate and to convince, though their inevitable effect is to delight and electrify as well.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

There has been no word equal to it in convincing power. I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison.

The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

Ron Paul is very smart, so I don't want to talk to him too long for fear that he will convince me.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

When you constantly claim you are the best, people start to believe that. I see that happen a lot. You can convince a lot of people by talking, even if that has nothing to do with your actual performances. But that's not my thing.

Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.