Communication Quote by Aristotle

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker;…

— Aristotle

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

— Robert Southey

“Professor Osterweis taught us how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion.”

— George W. Bush

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with…

— Kenneth Burke

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter…

— John Morley

“The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.”

— Allan Lokos

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

— Gerald R. Ford

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by…

— Ray Comfort

“There exists a remarkable consensus among those who have studied and practiced public speaking over the last twenty-five hundred years that the most effective…

— Keith Willhite

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated.

— James Roosevelt

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer…

— Aristotle