100 Greatest Communication Quotes

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Introduction


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Introduction

The power of the tongue and the wordsof our mouth are the subject of manyquotes including several hundred in

Gods Word, the Bible! Why have somany commented on the power,importance and attitude ofcommunication? You might be able toget through your entire life withouthaving to make a speech, but Ill bet youwont get through one day withoutcommunicating something to someone.Unless you are a hermit, everything yousay and do communicates something tosomeone around you.

Words can affect many things. The Bible

is called Gods Word. God spoke theworld into existence. Words can cut likea knife or soothe like a salve. Words can

build someone up or tear them down. How we communicate is often just as important if not even more so, than thewords themselves. Our body language, our eye contact, our gestures, our tone of voice all help us communicate.Communication is so much more than the words we choose to write on paper or we allow to slip out of our mouths.

Communication is of vital importance in life no matter who you are and what you do. You cannot have relationshipswithout communication as friendships and marriages rely upon this skill to blossom and grow. In fact, studies showthat a lack of effective communication is the number one cause of divorce! You cannot educate withoutcommunicating. You cannot get a job, climb the corporate ladder, run a business, parent a child, or share your faithwithout communicating.

So important is communication that thousands have commented on its power: from the rich and famous tophilosophers and from comedians to the Lord Himself.

The following is a collection of 100 of the most insightful and humorous communication quotes. Each is a gemcontaining priceless lessons for effective communication with our fellow man. Print them out. Post them up. Teachthem to your children. Heed their warnings. And harness their power for your life!

JoJo Tabares


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1. "A word fitly spoken is like apples ofgold in pictures of silver. Proverbs25:11

2. "The right to be heard does notautomatically include the right to betaken seriously." Hubert H.Humphrey

3. "Tis better to be thought a fool, thanopen one's mouth and remove alldoubt." Abraham Lincoln

4. "Let your speech be always withgrace, seasoned with salt, that yemay know how ye ought to answerevery man." Colossians 4:6

5. "Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference." Unknown

6. "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Dale Carnegie

7. "Communication is the most important skill in life." Stephen Covey, Author, The 7 Habits of Highly EffectivePeople.

8. "You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere." -LeeIacocca

9. A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he befilled. Proverbs 18:20

10. "The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to knowsomething as it is to know it." Unknown

11. "The mind is like a TV set-when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound." Anonymous

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

13. "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that askethyou a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" 1Peter 3:15

14. "Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace." James Bryce

15. The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. Proverbs 10:8

16. "What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of acastle. Proverbs 18:19

18. "The limits of my language are the limits of my world." Ludwig Wittenstein

19. "Communication is all anyone ever gets paid for ultimately...and if you cannot effectively communicate, youwill pay...not get paid! Doug Firebaugh

20. "He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend." Proverbs 22:11


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21. Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich

22. "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to thesoul, and health to the bones." Proverbs 16:24

23. Good communication is as stimulating as blackcoffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow

Lindbergh

24. He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it isfolly and shame unto him." Proverbs 18:13

25. The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between humanbeings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how tosay it. Edward R. Murrow

26. "A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul." Proverbs 18:7

27. The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who areunmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or

articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear youwhen they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even thechoices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.Edwin H. Friedman

28. Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklyn Delano Roosevelt

29. "A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself." Proverbs 18:2

30. The problem with communication ... is the illusionthat it has been accomplished. George Bernard Shaw

31. "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered."Proverbs 11:9

32. The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. Joseph Priestley

33. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in awhile. Kin Hubbard

34. Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. Pearl S. Buck

35. "The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom." Proverbs 10:21

36. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shallaccomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:11

37. Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. Robert Greeleaf

38. When we have the courage to speak out to break our silence we inspire the rest of the "moderates" inour communities to speak up and voice their views. Sharon Schuster

39. If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour,two days; if an hour, I am ready now. Woodrow Wilson

40. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. John FitzgeraldKennedy


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41. My lips shall not speak wickedness, normy tongue utter deceit. Job 27:4

42. Think like a wise man but communicatein the language of the people. WilliamButler Yeats

43. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a

sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thoulovest evil more than good; [and] lyingrather than to speak righteousness.Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words,O [thou] deceitful tongue. Psalms 52:2-4

44. It seemed rather incongruous that in asociety of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. Irma Bombeck

45. These six [things] doth the Lord hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lyingtongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swiftin running to mischief, A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Proverbs 6:16-19

46. The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.Anthony Robbins

47. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; Ecclesiastes 3:7

48. Communication is the real work of leadership. Nitin Nohria

49. These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute thejudgment of truth and peace in your gates: Zechariah 8:16

50. Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. John Fitzgerald

Kennedy

51. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out ofthe evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouthspeaketh. Luke 6:45

52. Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encouragesanother person to be brave and true. Charles Dickens

53. Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success. Paul J. Meyer

54. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, thatit may minister grace unto the hearers. Ephesians 4:29

55. Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but awise man speaks. Heinrich Heine

56.God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God'sgenerosity can flow through you. Are you called to be a speaker? Then speak as though God himself werespeaking through you. Are you called to help others? Do it with all the strength and energy that Godsupplies. Then God will be given glory in everything through Jesus Christ. All glory and power belong to himforever and ever. Amen. 1Peter 3:10-11

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


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58. "When I was a child, I talked like a child, Ithought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When Ibecame a man, I put childish ways behind me." 1Corinthians 13:11

59. Men and women belong to different species andcommunications between them is still in its infancy. BillCosby

60. "The first to present his case seems right, tilanother comes forward and questions him." Proverbs18:17

61. The tongue is the only tool that gets sharperwith use. Washington Irving

62. "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. Andunto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under thelaw, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being notwithout law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weakbecame I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means

save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. Know ye not thatthey which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man thatstriveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we anincorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keepunder my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, Imyself should be a castaway." 1 Corinthians 9:19-27

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

64. The internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since theinvention of call waiting. Dave Barry

65. One kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese Proverb

66. "He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into thedevil's trap." 1 Timothy 3:7

67. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. Abraham Lincoln

68. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Abraham Lincoln

69. Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken inearnest. Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980) Humorist

70. Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we

diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity. Dr. Laura Schlessinger

71. Two monologues do not make a dialogue. Jeff Daly

72. Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman

73. The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin

74. It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -HenryWadsworth Longfellow

75. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fairspeeches deceive the hearts of the simple. Romans 16:18


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76. For good or ill, your conversation is youradvertisement. Every time you open your mouthyou let men look into your mind. Do they see itwell clothed, neat, businesswise? Bruce Burton

77. The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to himabout the things he treasures most. DaleCarnegie

78. There are four ways, and only four ways, inwhich we have contact with the world. We areevaluated and classified by these four contacts:what we do, how we look, what we say, and howwe say it. Dale Carnegie

79. No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. Johann WolfgangVon Goethe

80. Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. Jr., Freeman Teague

81. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization,Innovation and COMMUNICATIONMichael E. Gerber

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

83. "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." Benjamin Franklin

84. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christforgave you, so also [do] ye. Colossians 3:13

85. "When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred." Thomas Jefferson

86. "If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use theirlanguage, the language in which they think."

87. David Ogilvy"Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers."Ray Johnson

88. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every goodwork, To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. Titus3:1-2

89. "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."Mark Twain

90. "A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the samereason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

91. "First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure."

Mark Twain

92. Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not] arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord [is] a God ofknowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they thatstumbled are girded with strength. [They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they thatwere] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxedfeeble. 1 Samuel 2:3-5

93. "It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer isconcerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets outof it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen."William Bernbach, quoted in Bill Bernbach said, 1989.


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94. "It is not a matter of what is true that counts,but a matter of what is perceived to be true."Henry Kissinger

95. Speak when you are angry - and you'll makethe best speech you'll ever regret. Dr. Laurence J.Peter

96. Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for theLord hath spoken. Jeremiah 13:15

97. When all other means of communication fail,try words Unknown

98. "The greatest compliment that was ever paidme was when someone asked me what I thought,

and attended to my answer." Henry David Thoreau

99. "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." Oscar Wilde

100. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 1 Thessalonians5:11


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