Top 100 Communication Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

— Dale Carnegie

52. “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

— J.K. Rowling

53. “It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.”

— Stephen R. Covey

54. “Writing is the painting of the voice.”

— Voltaire

55. “Rapport is the ability to enter someone else’s world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.”

— Tony Robbins

56. “A word after a word after a word is power.”

— Margaret Atwood

57. “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”

— Peter F. Drucker

58. “All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.”

— Jim Rohn

60. “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

— Mark Twain

61. “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”

— Garrison Keillor

62. “Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.”

— Brian Tracy

63. “All communication must lead to change.”

— Aristotle

64. “Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.”

— Deepak Chopra

65. “People don’t listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.”

— Stephen R. Covey

66. “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”

— William Arthur Ward

67. “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

— Robert Frost

68. “The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.”

— Denis Waitley

69. “Communication is the key for any global business.”

— Anita Roddick

70. “Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a “nervous system”, to coordinate its actions.”

— Bill Gates

71. “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

72. “Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.”

— Jesse James Garrett

73. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

74. “Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

75. “Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.”

— Edward Sapir

76. “A different language is a different vision of life.”

— Federico Fellini

77. “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”

— John F. Kennedy

78. “A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.”

— Noam Chomsky

79. “Give me the gift of a listening heart.”

— Solomon

80. “Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And Stay.”

— Will Smith

81. “The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.”

— Jim Rohn

82. “Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.”

— Philip Kotler

83. “There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.”

— Heraclitus

84. “Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.”

— Mark Twain

85. “If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.”

— Voltaire

86. “For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, ‘Follow me.’ Now that’s brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn’t have to say.”

— Jim Rohn

87. “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”

— Dale Carnegie

88. “Don’t look over people’s shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don’t talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don’t make love to a body, make love to a person.”

— Leo Buscaglia

89. “If I were down to the last dollar of my marketing budget, I’d spend it on PR!”

— Bill Gates

90. “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

— Marcel Proust

91. “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

92. “The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.”

— Morihei Ueshiba

93. “The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

— Napoleon

94. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

95. “Basically I don’t care what people think of me. I’m not in the communications business.”

— Mike Tyson

96. “For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”

— Khalil Gibran

97. “Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”

— Karl Marx

98. “Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”

— Karl Marx

99. “Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you’re gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.”

— Alice Hoffman

100. “If all that I would want to do was to sit and talk to you... would you listen?”

— Ann Ashford