Communication Quotes
"Communication is one of the most important skills you require for a successful life."

"We take communication for granted because we do it so frequently, but it's actually a complex process." Joseph Sommerville, PhD

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." Winston Churchill

"Communication sometimes is not what you first hear, listen not just to the words, but listen for the reason." Catherine Pulsifer

"Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?" Wayne W. Dyer

"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers." Les Brown

"For effective communication think about how is your speech is perceived than in what you are actually saying." Byron Rivers, from Communication In The Workplace

"Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-crafted messages will always have an audience." Steve Burnett



"Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." George Sala

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." Peter F. Drucker

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversations is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak." Francois La Rochefoucauld

"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself." Plato

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere." Lee Iacocca

"The genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time." John Powell

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." Joseph Priestley

"It is not the language of painters, but the language of nature which one should listen to...The feeling for things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for the picture." Vincent Van Gogh

"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood." Jr., Freeman Teague

"Silence is one great art of conversation." William Hazlitt

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it." Dale Carnegie

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." Anthony Robbins

"We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less." Diogenes Laertius

"The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." Josh Billings

"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them." Dean Rusk

"Constantly develop your communication skills as they are one of the key skills in life." Catherine Pulsifer

"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most." Dale Carnegie

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people." Jim Rohn



"Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad." Italian Proverb

"Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to communicate unto you if your positions were reversed." Aaron Goldman

"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse." John Locke

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know." Jim Rohn

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." Kin Hubbard

"For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?" Bruce Burton

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." Gandhi

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world - use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." Anthony Robbins

"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it." Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Even when you choose your words well, if your tone of voice is hurried, hostile, or defensive, people may hear something very different from what you intended." Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner, Dealing with Difficult People


"You can
communicate best
when you
first listen."
 Catherine Pulsifer




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"The basic building block
of good communications
is the feeling that
every human being is
unique and of value."
 Author Unknown




"Argument is
the worst sort
of conversation."
 Jonathan Swift


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