Best Communication Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“What the dead had no speech for, when living,”

“Your message might reach the ears of the audience, barely scratch the surface of their minds, and never get close to their hearts—to what they care about.”

“Not everyone needs to have the rhetorical wizardry of Barack Obama or the wordsmithery of Ernest Hemingway! You just need to be authentic.”

“What will other people think? It reflects the human yearning for belonging versus the imagined harsh reactions of the world. But in reality, people care much less than you think, and that’s the naked truth.”

“Speak your truth and share your story, for you never know the magic that awaits on the other side of authenticity and vulnerability.”

“Hope is like a beacon in the darkness. It stands like a lighthouse, guiding lost ships toward safe shores.”

“Silence is occasionally a proactive choice, and not merely the inert absence of noise. It can be an act of courage, power unwielded out of sensitivity or respect, or a circle of concentration to reflect and reminisce. A well-timed silence can command a room, spare others needless pain, or be a pregnant pause to preserve a special moment.”

“That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.”

“We treat each other with exceeding courtesy;”

“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”

“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”

“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”

“Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.”

“ART”

“Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.”

“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.”

“To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.”

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.”

“You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.”

“If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.”

“The highest level of maturity is knowing how, when, and what to say to whom.”

“Know this: When someone talks over you, or interrupts you to say anything- they are not listening, not interested in listening , not interested in what you are saying and do not value what you are saying. Stop talking.”

“The Practice of Staying”

“Don't speak to fill the air; speak to change the atmosphere.”

“What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.”

“To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them”

“True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.”

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”

“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...”

“Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.”