Communication Quotes

Talk doesn't cook rice.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Silence is deep as Eternity, Speech is shallow as Time.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

We learn what we have said from those who listen to our speaking.

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker.When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening…

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

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

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

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

Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

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…

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a months study of books.

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.

If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that…

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its…

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.