Effective Communication Quotes - Page 2

• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Communication, Words You Speak

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

  Hermann Hesse

  Communication, Different, Littles

  14 Copy quote

• Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

  139 Copy quote

• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  Dale Carnegie

  Skills, Wish, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.94, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Communication, People

  Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give me the gift of a listening heart.

  Solomon

  Communication, Heart, Giving

  23 Copy quote

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

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  266 Copy quote

• It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Communication

  47 Copy quote

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

  Ann Landers

  Communication, Talking, May

  27 Copy quote

• Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Trustworthiness, Cement

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• Big egos have little ears.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Ego, Listening, Ears

  4 Copy quote

• Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  159 Copy quote

• For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Jesus, Communication, Simplicity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2015

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember, what you say comes back to you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Teenager, Remember

  30 Copy quote

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Coffee, Communication, Memorable

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Communication, Humor, Intelligent

  "Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography". Book by Wilfrid Meynell, 1903.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

  25 Copy quote
• 

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Powerful, Reading, Communication

  Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

  George W. Bush

  Inspirational, Funny, Political

  Attributed to George W. Bush in Associated Press interview in Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1988.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Fall, Communication, Thinking

  10 Copy quote

• Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Speech, Hearing, Convenience

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.230, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Motivation, Greatness, Men

  29 Copy quote

• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca
  
  Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Mark Twain

  Communication, Love Is, Skills

  30 Copy quote