Listening Quotes

Listening can heal wounds.

Sean Covey

Love begins with listening.

Fred Rogers

Listening is love in action.

Leo Buscaglia

Helping begins with listening.

Gloria Steinem

The art of conversation lies in listening.

Malcolm Forbes

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

John James Audubon

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen R Covey

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.

Susan Cain

You're short on ears and long on mouth.

John Wayne

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

William Hazlitt

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

Alfred Brendel

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 G Nichols

It is greed to do all the talking and never to listen.

Democritus

Hearing is listening to what’s said. Listening is hearing what isn’t said.

Simon Sinek

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and by others. That which is hidden.

Rachel Naomi Remen

If you’re not listening, you’re not learning.

Lyndon B Johnson

Great leaders know that listening to others is much more important than asserting their authority. Quiet your thoughts and listen to others with an open mind.

John Wooden

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The best way to be a good conversationalist is to let the other person do most of the talking.

Matthew Kobach

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

Charles Dickens

The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.

Nicky Gumbel

The good listener: someone who has learnt how to find bits of themselves in the experiences of others.

Alain de Botton

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.

Federico Fellini

Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

Paulo Coelho

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don’t – that should tell us something.

Paulo Coelho

Listening doesn’t mean waiting for your turn to talk.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

André Gide

I’ve come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another… if we care, we can listen.

Fred Rogers