Great Oratory Quotes

#1. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.

Kevin Murray

#2. I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.

Forest Whitaker

#3. Lots of men hate women now-a-days ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

Phyllis Bottome

#4. All great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Brett Favre

#6. The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.

Rene Descartes

#8. My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

Georges St-Pierre

#9. It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

Horace

#10. There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

Elihu Burritt