52 Inspirational Quotes to Help You Communicate Better and With Quiet Courage

INSPIRATIONAL
QUOTES TO HELP
YOU COMMUNICATE
BETTER AND WITH
QUIET COURAGE
© 2016 The Grossman Group

Never tell people how to
do things. Tell them what
to do and they will
surprise you with
their ingenuity.
- Gen. George S. Patton
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Effective teamwork begins and
ends with communication.
- Michael William Krzyzewski
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The art of effective listening is
essential to clear communication,
and clear communication is
necessary to management success.
- James Cash Penney
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People I work with are open to
leadership that has a vision, but this
vision has to be communicated
clearly and persuasively, and
always, always with passion.
- Anita Roddick

Communication works for those
who work at it.
- John Powell

Good communication is as
stimulating as black coffee, and just
as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Whatever your objectives, clear
communication is the key to
success.
- Melitta Campbell

Skill in the art of communication is
crucial to a leader’s success. He
can accomplish nothing unless he
can communicate effectively.
- Norman Allen

Communication leads to
community, that is, to
understanding, intimacy and
mutual valuing.
- Rollo May

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Constantly talking isn’t necessarily
communicating.
- Charlie Kaufman

In the last analysis, what we are
communicates far more eloquently
than anything we say or do.
- Stephen R. Covey

We have two ears and one mouth
so that we can listen twice as much
as we speak.
- Epictetus

If you can't explain it simply, you
don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein

Kind words can be short and easy
to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless.
- Mother Teresa

You can have brilliant ideas, but if
you can’t get them across, your
ideas won’t get you anywhere.
- Lee Iacocca

Assumptions are the termites of
relationships.
- Henry Winkler

The less people know, the more
they yell.
- Seth Godin

The key to handling problems and
conflict within an organization is to
keep the channels of
communication wide open.
- Anita Roddick

One should aim not at being
possible to understand, but at being
impossible to misunderstand.
- Quintilian

Influence comes from being part of
the conversation, not part of the
establishment.
- Richard Dennison

If you just communicate, you can
get by, but if you communicate
skillfully, you can work miracles.
- Jim Rohn

To listen well is as powerful a means
of communication and influence as
to talk well.
- John Marshall

People don’t remember what we
think is important; they remember
what they think is important.
- John C. Maxwell

If you can’t communicate and talk
to other people and get across your
ideas, you’re giving up your
potential.
- Warren Buffet

The single biggest problem in
communication is the illusion that it
has taken place.
- George Bernard Shaw

The best way to persuade people is
with your ears - by listening to them.
- Dean Rusk

Communication happens in the
mind of the listener.
- David Grossman

Never miss a good chance to
shut up.
- Will Rogers

The art of communication is the
language of leadership.
- James Humes

How we explain that when
someone is cruel or acts like a
bully, you don't stoop to their level.
No, our motto is, when they go low,
we go high.
- Michelle Obama

Their story, yours, mine – it's what we
all carry with us on this trip we take,
and we owe it to each other to
respect our stories and learn from
them.
- William Carlos Williams

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

Communication is the real work of
leadership.
- Nitin Nohria

To effectively communicate, we
must realize that we are all different
in the way that we perceive the
world and use this understanding as
a guide to our communication with
others.
- Anthony Robbins

Two monologues do not make a
dialogue.
- Jeff Daly

The most valuable of all talents is
that of never using two words when
one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson

Speak when you are angry and you
will make the best speech you will
ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce

Most people do not listen with the
intent to understand; they listen with
the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

Culture eats strategy for lunch.
- Peter Drucker

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest
thing to remember.
- David Mamet

Once in a while you can get shown
the light in the strangest of places if
you look at it right.
- Robert Hunter

Communication is not about
speaking what we think.
Communication is about ensuring
others hear what we mean.
- Simon Sinek

The quality of your life is the quality
of your communication.
- Anthony Robbins

Complexity is the enemy of
communication.
- Unknown

A man who tells secrets or stories
must think of who is hearing or
reading, for a story has as many
versions as it has readers.
- John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

You can't talk your way out of a
problem you have behaved your
way into.
- Stephen R. Covey

People may hear your words, but
they feel your attitude.
- John C. Maxwell

The difference between the almost
right word and the right word is
really a large matter—‘tis the
difference between the lightning
bug and the lightning.
- Mark Twain

At its core, communication is an
instrument of strategy as well as a
strategy in itself. It’s an instrument of
strategy because it helps you share
your mission, vision and values with
employees. It’s a strategy because it
will help you achieve specific goals.
- David Grossman

Speak clearly, if you speak at all;
carve every word before you let
it fall.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The most important thing in
communication is hearing what isn't
said.
- Peter Drucker

People don't care how much you
know, until they know how much
you care.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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