Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

You must ... communicate your passion to others and act accordingly, without hesitation when your decision is once made.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

During five whole sessions I spoke every night but one; and I regret only that I did not speak on that night too.

The capacity to persuade is an essential part of being a great leader.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Tell me sufficiently why a thing should be done, and I will move heaven and earth to do it.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.

Believing requires action.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill's powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had long admired. Kennedy was hardly unmindful of how important a great inaugural address could be.

I'd make a bad preacher.

I don't join or leave things lightly.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.