Listening Quotes | Sayings on Active Listening

Being quiet is fine, most people don’t listen anyways.

Listen carefully to how a person speaks about other people to you. This is how they will speak about you to other people.

Always listen to people when they’re mad, that’s when the truth comes out.

It takes patience to listen.. It takes skill to pretend you’re listening.
– Harmon Okinyo

Most people can hear…few people can listen…

There’s more to life when we listen to our heart…

Fools are those who don’t listen to the wise. Wise are those who don’t listen to the fools.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
– Jimi Hendrix

Before you talk – listen.

Listen to positive people and ignore negative ones. People that doubt, judge, and disrespect you are not worth your time and attention.

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

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 Bennett

You don’t know how to love if you don’t know how to listen.

Wisdom listens before speaking, thinks before acting, observes before indulging and asks when in doubt.

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.
– Allan Lokos

The most golden rule is – Do not ever ignore advice, whether you feel it is good or bad. Listening never harms any one. It is how you take it, apply it and use it that matters in the end.

The golden rule of arguing is to listen more. This way, you can analyze rather than being analyzed.

Men were created with two ears and only one mouth. Listen twice as much as you speak.

Listen and Silent are spelled with the same letters.

Listening and hearing aren’t the same thing.

You learn more if you listen more and talk less. You learn less if listen less and talk more.
– Dr T.P.Chia

You would never fail if you listen to your heart, not to others. It is the secret of all the wise men who have won the world.

If we want others to listen to our views, we must be willing to listen to theirs.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
– George Clooney

A wise man listens no matter how stupidly someone is talking.

Fate has brought you to these words… Listen well.

Knowledge speaks, Wisdom listens.

Listen if you want to learn. Talk if you don’t.

He who talks the most will get no one to listen.

Even our enemies can speak in wisdom; maybe it’s time we listen.

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

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
– Kiana Tom

Show your intelligence by listening as twice as you can talk, simply because we have two ears and one tongue.
– Epictetus

One Who Fails To Listen. Fails To Learn.

Typically, caring people “listen to” while opportunists “listen for”.
– Alan Robert Neal

Listening means taking a second to consider what they’re saying, not just hearing their words.

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
– G.K. Chesterton

Since God gave you two ears and one mouth…If you listen twice as much as you talk, you will understand & learn a lot about what the person you are talking with is really thinking.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
– Ernest Hemingway

There’s nothing you can say that will make someone like you more than listening to what they say.
– Alex Hormozi

Listen Much ,, Talk Less

People assume that they are right because they are always talking and I always listen.

Listen; It makes you sound smarter.

There’s nothing to say differently to a person who wasn’t going to listen anyhow.
– Alan Robert Neal

To listen sublimely is to heed the unspoken words.

Don’t think or judge, just listen.
– Sarah Dessen

Wish you could understand more of what I say instead of hearing please listen.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
– Pearl Bailey

Listening accumulate knowledge. It will add to what you already know. And that makes you wiser.

Typically, the more often you’re right, the less often someone will listen to you. And the more you remind them of that statistic, the more they’ll prove it true.
– Alan Robert Neal

Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.
– Robert A. Heinlein

Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.
– Sadhguru

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
– Mignon McLaughlin

When I stopped talking I started to hear myself more.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People who make the biggest fuss about what, when and how you tell them something are the least likely to hear it anyhow.
– Alan Robert Neal

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