Communication Quotes

“Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.”

Andy Stanley

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”

Tony Robbins

“If people like you, they will listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.”

“You can observe a lot by watching.”

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

Laurence J. Peter

“Conversation: a fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbour.”

Ambrose Bierce

“Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.”

Ambrose Bierce

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

Charles Dickens

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

Jane Austen

“Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth.”

“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself.”

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

Richard Feynman

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

Malala Yousafzai

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Elie Wiesel

“Your silence will not protect you.”

Audre Lorde

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, that is a friend who cares.”

Henri Nouwen

“If you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”

Kahlil Gibran

“Least said, soonest mended.”

English Proverb

“Think before you speak.”

English Proverb

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”

William Hazlitt

“Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbours.”

Fred Rogers