Communication Quotes

Welcome to my communication quotes page. In every type of relationship under the sun communication is vital to keep things flowing. We all take good communication for granted though, preferring occasionally to be the worst communicators we can be just for the sake of it. The following quotes are a reminder to you and to me the importance of communication in our life.

• COMMUNICATION QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives
  Anthony Robbins


• One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.
  Margaret Chase Smith


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


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


• 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.
  Tony Robbins


• The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
  Edwin H. Friedman


• I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
  Robert McCloskey


• Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
  Anne Morrow Lindbergh


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


• We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
  Marcel Proust


• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
  Edward R. Murrow


• When we have the courage to speak out – to break our silence – we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views.
  Sharon Schuster


• Generally speaking, the first nonviolent act is not fasting, but dialogue. The other side, the adversary, is recognized as a person, he is taken out of his anonymity and exists in his own right, for what he really is, a person. To engage someone in dialogue is to recognize him, have faith in him. At every step in the nonviolent struggle, at every level we try tirelessly to establish a dialogue, or reestablish it if it has broken down. When I say 'the other side,' that could be a group of persons or a government.
  Hildegard Goos-Mayr


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


• After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
  Russell Hoban


• I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
  Michel de Montaigne


• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
  Rollo May


• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
  Rollo May






• 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


• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family
  Virginia Satir


• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
  William Butler Yeats


• Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
  Emily Dickinson


• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
  Harry S. Truman


• If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.
  Malcolm Forbes


• Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
  Al Ries


• Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
  Pythagoras


• Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
  Pearl Buck


• Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.
  John A. Piece


• Communication is the real work of leadership.
  Nitin Nohria


• Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.
  John Kotter


• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
  Ann Landers


• Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


• If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other persons place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.
  Henry Ford


• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
  Rudyard Kipling

Thank you for passing by my communication quotes page. Good communication skills are vital for living the best life possible. I hope the above communication quotes inspired you to make good communication a priority in your life. Till next time.

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