Top 34 Great Speaker Quotes
#1. I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.
William Butler Yeats
#2. Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
Brad Meltzer
#3. Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.
Pete Rose
#4. Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker.
Lisa A. Mininni
#5. Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.
Robert Reich
#6. The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.
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#7. It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."
Tom Felton
#8. One has to be careful, whenever one tells a story about a great injustice. We are a species that loves narrative, but has been taught not to trust an individual speaker.
Ken Liu
#9. The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.
Tim Hunt
#10. The real duty of a motivational speaker and an inspirational writer must be to inspire lives to live and leave distinctive footprints which shall qualify such lives to eternal eternity in the Kingdom of God notwithstanding how minute or great the footprints might be
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#11. Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.
Jim Ramstad
#12. I'm not saying Martha Stewart is old, but she needs a new Walker more than the 'Fast and Furious' franchise.
Natasha Leggero
#13. Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?
Christopher Babson
#14. You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.
Drew Houston
#16. Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders.
Marsha Blackburn
#17. Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#18. There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#19. Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
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#20. The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.
Richard Armour
#22. It makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
Nellie L. McClung
#24. I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.
Frederick Lenz
#25. Since joining the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2006, I have strongly supported Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have the utmost respect for her, and I believe the Democrats were able to accomplish a great deal under her leadership.
Albio Sires
#27. I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.
Jerry Della Femina
#28. God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.
Tasha Smith
#29. If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.
Peter Gallagher
#30. In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
George Henry Lewes
#31. I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.
Andy Andrews
#32. You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone? I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.
A.S. King
#33. Sometimes when you're struggling to see kindness in the world, you need to be the creator of it to remind yourself it does exist.
Truth Devour
#34. In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden
