Top 55 Most Inspiring Quotes On Listening
“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.” ― Anonymous
“There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking–and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.” ― Daniel Dae Kim
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ― Winston Churchill
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.” ― Calvin Coolidge
“If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk.” ― Robert Baden-Powell
“The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.” ― Alfred Brendel
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” ― Doug Larson
“Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet.” ― Krista Tippett
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” ― Dick Cavett
“It is the province of knowledge to speak. And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” ― Bernard Baruch
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“There’s a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.” ― Michael P. Nichols
“Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.” ― Chip Bell
“The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It’s terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.” ― Sam Walton
“One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.” ― Franklin P. Jones
“We listened to what our customers wanted and acted on what they said. Good things happen when you pay attention.” ― John F Smith
“Listening to others viewpoints may reveal the one thing needed to complete your goals.” ― D. Ridgley
“Listening is an effect. Communication is cause.” ― Meir Ezra
“The best salespeople are great listeners—that’s how you find out what the buyer wants.” ― Larry Wilson and Spencer Johnson
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have rather talked.” ― Mark Twain
“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.” ― Woodrow Wilson
“Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening … when you’d have preferred to talk.” ― D.J. Kaufman
“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.” ― Diogenes
“Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.” ― Phillip Stanhope
“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.” ― Alan Alda
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” ― Peter Drucker
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” ― Hubert Humphrey
“He who is wise listens.” ― Anonymous
“Listening is an art that requires attention over talent, spirit over ego, others over self.” ― Dean Jackson
Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps.— Argentine Proverb
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.” ― Dr Joyce Brothers
“If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.” ― Turkish Proverb
“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.” ― Dalai Lama
“Listening is a magnetic force.” ― Karl A. Menninger
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” ― Karl A. Menniger
“There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.” ― Anonymous
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.” ― M. Scott Peck
“Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.” ― Jeanette Winterson
“Listening is often the only thing needed to help someone.” ― Anonymous
“The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.” ― Josh Billings
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.” ― L. J. Isham
“Listening is one of the loudest forms of kindness.” ― Anonymous
“It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine.” ― Bob Nelson
“When we listen, we hear someone into existence.” ― Laurie Buchanan, PhD
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” ― Stephen R. Covey
“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.” ― Frank Tyger
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.” ― Wilson Mizner
“You have to be willing sometimes to listen to some remarkable bad opinions. Because if you say to someone, ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard; get on out of here!’—then you’ll never get anything out of that person again, and you might as well have a puppet on a string or a robot.” ― John Bryan
“I’ll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I’d listen to it!“— Tom Galloway
“You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen – not just money but respect.” ― Harvey Mackay
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” ― Anonymous
“Silence is a source of great strength.” ― Lao Tzu
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” ― Bernard Baruch
“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” ― Bryant H. McGill