Power of Speech 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.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Words are also actions.

… a style of oratory that I never heard equaled in this or any other country

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Politicians are ambitious not to make important decisions but to say important things.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it's in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created.

I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.