Communication Quotes | Inspirational Communication Quotations

Communication Quotes - Communication is sending and receiving the information between two or more people. The purpose of communication is to let the people know what we want them to understand. It is an exchange of ideas, opinions, emotions and facts, by two or more persons. Communication can be both verbal and non-verbal. Without communication, there is no relationship. Communication helps to understand the people, eliminate misconceptions, bring the people together & close to one another. Communication brings out clarity of thoughts and expression. Why we communicate: To change behavior, to elicit the action required, to ensure understanding, to persuade, to get and give information.

How does communication help?

• To explain the existing problems
• To make decisions
• To develop relationship
• To manage the ideas, knowledge and creativity
• To create a clear vision
• To avoid and rectify the mistakes
• To convey information accurately

Communication Quotes:

We can share awesome communication quotes by famous authors, let these quotes on communication inspire you to develop the good communication skills. 

“Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action.” 

- Anonymous

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

- Ann Morrow Lindbergh 

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”

- Peter Drucker

“Communication works for those who work at it.” 

- John Powell

“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.”

- Bill Gates

Communication Quotes  “The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.” 

- Seneca

“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

“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.” 

- Groucho Marx

Communication Quotes  “When all other means of communication fail, try words.” 

- Anonymous

“Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.” 

- Pearl S. Buck

Communication Quotes  “Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.” 

- Ashleigh Brilliant

“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.” 

- Margaret Miller

“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.” 

- Michel de Montaigne

Communication Quotes  “Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.” 

- Pythagoras

“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” 

- Rollo May 

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” 

- Andre Gide

“It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.”

- Yogi Berra

Communication Quotes  “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” 

- Ralph Nichols

“How often things could be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.”

- Norman Douglas

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

- Erma Bombeck

Communication Quotes  “There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.”

 - John Dewey

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

“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.” 

- Democritus

Communication Quotes  “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” 

- Epictetus

“Effective communications starts with listening.” 

- Robert Gately

“Have something to say, say it, stop talking.” 

- George Horace Lorimer

“Storytellers, By The Very Act Of Telling, Communicate A Radical Learning That Changes Lives And The World: Telling Stories Is A Universally Accessible Means Through Which People Make Meaning.” 

- Chris Cavanaugh

“Kind Words Can Be Short And Easy To Speak, But Their Echoes Are Truly Endless.”

- Mother Theresa

“I Speak To Everyone In The Same Way, Whether He Is The Garbage Man Or The President Of The University.” 

- Albert Einstein

Communication Quotes  “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

“The Art Of Communication Is The Language Of Leadership.” 

- James Humes

Communication Quotes  “Two Monologues Do Not Make A Dialogue.” 

- Jeff Daly

“Most Of The Successful People I've Known Are The Ones Who Do More Listening Than Talking.” 

- Bernard Baruch

“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.”

- Lou Rawls
Communication Quotes  “Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”

- Yehuda Berg
“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”

- Stephen Covey

“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. Lou Rawls

“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.”

- Paul J. Meyer

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

- Buddha
“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”

- Jim Rohn

“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”

- John Dryden
“The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.”

- James Cash Penney

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." 

- George Bernard Shaw

"Speak when you are angry -- and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

- Laurence Peters

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." 

- Stephen King

"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do." 

- Stephen Covey

"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language." 

- Walt Disney

"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 Harris

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." 

- Leo Rosten

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing." 

- Rollo May

"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything." 

- Tom Peters

"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break." 

- Earl Wilson

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

- Plato

"Two monologues do not make a dialogue." 

- Jeff Daly

"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening." 

- Emma Thompson

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." 

- D.H. Lawrence

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time." 

- Scott Peck

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." 

- Ernest Hemingway

"That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying." 

- Cervantes

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

- Mark Twain

"Give me the gift of a listening heart." 

- King Solomon

"I have an answering machine in my car. It says, 'I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.'" 

- Steven Wright

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” 
- Charles Dickens

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” 
- C. JoyBell C.

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” 
- Hermann Hesse

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.” 
- Judy Blume

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” 
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.” 
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” 
- Henry Winkler

“Self-consciousness kills communication.” 
- Rick Steves

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.
At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” 
- Vera Nazarian

“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” 
- Stephen R. Covey

“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.” 
- Orson Scott Card

“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.” 
- Oliver Sacks

“A word to the wise is infuriating. ” 
- Hunter S. Thompson

“Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...” 
- Brian Greene

“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” 
- Shannon L. Alder

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

“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.” 
- Douglas Adams