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Quotes About Communication

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
~ Martin Luther
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~ Graham Greene
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
~ George MacDonald
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
~ Mark Twain
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
~ George D. Prentice
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
~ Blaise Pascal
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
~ Hosea Ballou
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
~ Mark Twain
The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.
~ Gavin de Becker
Every Day you should reach out and touch someone
~ Maya Angelou
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
~ Leo Buscaglia
All people want to be touched.
~ Princess Diana
In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
~ Gautama Buddha
Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
~ Gautama Buddha
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
~ William Hazlitt
The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
~ Anne Frank
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
~ Freya Stark
...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.
~ Kim Harrison
when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.
~ Rosamond Lehmann
You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.
~ Sheena Iyengar
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
~ Dorothy Osborne
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
~ Charlotte Bronte