Communication Quotes

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”

Ralph Nichols

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.”

Brenda Ueland

“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”

M. Scott Peck

“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.”

Bryant H. McGill

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”

Larry King

“No man ever listened himself out of a job.”

Calvin Coolidge

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Leo Buscaglia

“Be silent, or let thy words be worth more than silence.”

Pythagoras

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”

Publilius Syrus

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

Maurice Switzer

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”

“Speech is silver, silence is golden.”

English Proverb

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

Mother Teresa

“Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.”

“Speak such words that you lose your ego; your own body will be cool, and others will be happy too.”

Kabir

“Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”

Isaac Asimov

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

William Wordsworth

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter; it's the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”

Mark Twain

“Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

George Orwell

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

George Orwell

“Omit needless words.”

William Strunk Jr.

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”