All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

“All great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

— Dianna Daniels Booher

There is no true orator who is not a hero.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid,…

— Elihu Burritt

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

— Ben Jonson

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are…

— Aristotle

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if…

— William C. Bryant

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great…

— Woodrow Wilson

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece,…

— John Milton

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Thomas Carlyle