Quotes about
listening
“Incline your
ear and come to Me.
Listen, that you
may live;
And I will make
an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the
faithful mercies shown to David.
Isaiah 55:3
Courage is what
it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen.
Winston
Churchill
Listening is a
hug you give with your mind.
Barbara Nixon
The silence of
prayer is the silence of listening.
Elizabeth O’Connor
People don’t
listen to understand.
They listen to
reply.
The collective
monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
Stephen Covey
Try to listen
carefully that you might not have to speak.
Quaker saying
When you are
deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which
cannot be articulated.
David A. Cooper
The reason why
so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about
what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen
when we are eager to speak.
La Rochefoucauld
(1600’s)
I stop and taste
my words before I let them pass my teeth.
Anonymous
We need silence
to be able to touch souls.
Mother Theresa
Listening – the
language of love for everyone.
Anonymous
