Effective Speaking Quotes

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

It is much better when a member resumes his seat after he has made a speech for the House to have the feeling that they wish he had gone on longer instead of wondering why he did not stop sooner.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

I want to, when I say things on TV, to talk to the people in English.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

If you do talk dirty, make sure that you enunciate because there's nothing more embarrassing than having to repeat yourself.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.