50 Quotes About Listening to Inspire You to Be a Good Listener

1. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” - Ernest Hemingway

2. “We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.” - Zeno of Citium

3. “It takes a great man to be a good listener.” - Calvin Coolidge

4. “There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.” - G.K. Chesterton

5. “The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” - William Hazlit

6. “We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.” - Susan Cain

7. “The word LISTEN contains the same letters as the word SILENT.” - Alfred Brendel

8. “If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.” - Turkish Proverb

9. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” - Rumi

10. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” - Jimi Hendrix

11. “It takes a great man to be a good listener.” - Calvin Coolidge

12. “Whoever answers before listening is both foolish and shameful.” - Proverbs 18:13

13. “Listen like every sentence matters; talk like every word counts.” - Geoffrey Tumlin

14. "There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak." - Simon Sinek

15. "Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers." - Anne Burrell

16. "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen Covey

17. “You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.” - M. Scott Peck

18. “Big egos have little ears.” - Robert Schuller

19. “Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.” - Gary Hopkins

20. “God speaks to us every day only we don’t know how to listen.” - Mahatma Gandhi

1. "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

2. “Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.” - Roy T. Bennett

3. “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

4. “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.” - Brené Brown

5. “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

6. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” - Harper Lee

7. “Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.” - Alan Alda

8. "We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know." - Carl Rogers

9. "The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention" - Richard Moss

10. "So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

11. "With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing." - Catherine Doherty

12. "The first duty of love is to listen." - Paul Tillich

13. ""You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect." - Harvey Mackay

14. “The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.” - Roy T. Bennett

15. “Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.” - Sura Hart

1. “Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.” - Roy T. Bennett

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

3. “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” - Bernard M. Baruch

4. “It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.” - Criss Jami, Killosophy

5. "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." - Bryant H. McGill

6. "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway

7. "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson

8. "Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time." - George W. Bush

9. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” - Winston Churchill

10. “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” - Doug Larson

11. “One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.” - David Grossman

12. “Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.” - Frank Tyger

13. “Do more listening than talking; talk more about them than about you.” - Roy T. Bennett

14. “A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.” - James Faust

15. "If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk." - Robert Baden-Powell