These communication quotes will inspire you. Communication, exchanging of information or news; means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging communication quotes, communication sayings, and communication proverbs.
Inspirational Communication Quotes
- “The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
- “Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.” ~ Gerald R. Ford
- “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” ~ Tony Robbins
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“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “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
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand…They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let’s try anyway…” ~ Bernard Werber
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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ~ Epictetus
- “You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” ~ Lee Iacocca
- “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
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“No communication takes place until the other person feels heard” ~ Garrison Wynn
- “Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a “nervous system”, to coordinate its actions.” ~ Bill Gates
- “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
- “I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” ~ Robert McCloskey
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“The relationship is the communication bridge between people.” ~ Alfred Kadushin
- “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
- “Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.” ~ Gil Amelio
- “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” ~ Mother Teresa
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“Communication is the real work of leadership.” ~ Nitin Nohria
- “Communication works for those who work at it.” ~ John Powell
- “The first duty of love is to listen.” ~ Paul Tillich
- “Two monologues do not make a dialogue.” ~ Jeff Daly
- “Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind.” ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” ~ Rollo May
- “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.” ~ Brian Tracy , Communication quotes work
- “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.” ~ Emma Thompson
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“There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.” ~ Christopher Morley
- “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” ~ Mark Twain
- “It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.” ~ Yogi Berra
- “Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
- “The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation, and communication.” ~ Harold Geneen
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“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
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“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.” ~ Pythagoras
- “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” ~ J. B. Priestley
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“Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action” ~ Mae West
- “The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.” ~ Washington Irving
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.” ~ Epictetus
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“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship.” ~ Deborah Tannen , Relationship communication quotes
- “The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.” ~ James Cash Penney
- “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
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Friendship with one’s self is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.” ~ Ann Landers
- “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 P. Kotter
- “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” ~ William S. Burroughs
- “Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.” ~ Catherine Doherty
- “The less people know, the more they yell.” ~ Seth Godin
- “My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.” ~ Margaret Chase Smith
- “To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.” ~ Yves Klein
- “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
- “One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.” ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Summary: Communication is “an apparent answer to the painful divisions between self and other, private and public, and inner thought and outer word.”
