Good Listener Quotes

• It takes a great man to be a good listener.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Relationship, Wisdom

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• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Relationship, Positive, Success

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Thinking

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

  Epictetus

  Kindness, Communication, Compassion

  "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" by Epictetus, translated by Hastings Crossley, Vol. II, Part 2, The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909.

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• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Business, Communication, Silence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.12, BookBaby

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• This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

  Sarah Dessen

  Waiting, Over You, Finishing

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Listening, Sore Throat

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Music

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• The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

  Caroline Myss

  Inspirational, Listening To Others, Giving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2014

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• We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

  Diogenes

  Inspirational, Two, Listening

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• A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

  John Powell

  Want, Nonviolent Communication, Knows

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• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

  Richard Moss

  Educational, Communication, Wrestling

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• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.298, Mango Media Inc.

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• When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

  Edward de Bono

  Beautiful, Mind, Attractive

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• Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

  Richard Branson

  Leader, Listening, Listeners

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Jun 19, 2012

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• Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Karma, Communication

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 06, 2011

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Listening To Others, Silence

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Listening, Process, Reciprocal

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.239, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Listening To Others, Giving, Silence

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Listening, Want

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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