Listen Quotes

Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not innocent victims. When you learn humility, you are no longer a victim because a humble man is not self-absorbed. He seeks to understand why people are hurting him and takes responsibility for his part in their grief. Humility doesn’t dwell with anger or pride, and neither does God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Smile, ask, listen, provide, thank then take time out to have fun & renew yourself but always dream up more questions. - Julia Woodman

~ Jay Woodman

Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don't listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed yourself!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Love is inaudible—until you hear it. And once you do, you’ll never forget the sound of her voice.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Go become someone's miracle! There's healing in your hand, in your voice, in your heart, in your eyes! YOU ARE A HEALER! You have the power to love, to accept, to encourage, to lift someone's spirit, to hug, to help, to listen, to care!! YOU ARE A MIRACLE!

~ Abhishek Kumar

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)

~ Sura Hart

It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.

~ James Martin

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I never argue with a person; with love, I listen in deep silence.

~ Debasish Mridha

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Try to forgive by trying to understand how it would feel to be in the other’s shoes. If someone hurts you – ask them - “What hurts you so much that you would do this?” Listen to the answer and try to understand what is valid for them. They may have been fighting for your attention, but no one thinks of themselves as attackers, only defenders! So don’t judge their ways, only set them free by giving them a chance to speak. You may both learn a lot from your kindness and courage in asking for the truth. But even if nothing changes, release it, remember that you both have a right to be who you choose to be. When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, so ask if you seek to understand, or simply let them be!

~ Jay Woodman

People don't want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.

~ Erin Entrada Kelly

When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons.

~ Steven Magee

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

~ Brenda Ueland

Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Listening to intuition is similar to watching wind wiggle a pond. Allow the ripples to move you where you need to be.

~ Soul Dancer

Real loved one's aren't afraid, and will suggest to you, what's in your best interest... because they wouldn't want too see you suffer the consequences of your, sideways, emotional impulse(s). To see you crash and burn is the gratification of [the] 'yes folk' lurking in your corner. You may not agree, but always consider the voice(s) that have consistently kept it real.

~ T.f. Hodge

Ask with Confidence, listen with humility.

~ Charlie Van Hecke

I just don't understand why those who fail to listen to others possess a habitual desire to be listened to.

~ Gugu Mona

I figured out that I'm better off not explaining how and why I do the things that I do. If people can only read the surface of what you are, and that's all they want to see, let them see just what they need to see. Everything more is just something to keep and share only with the people that desire and are ready to receive that information. Words wasted on ears that do not listen and eyes that do not see are just seeds thrown on rocky ground. Prepare your ground first and then ask for the seeds.

~ Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sometimes we just need to be heard… There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.

~ Steve Maraboli

Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! Don't wait for another year older for you to learn something new. JUST DO IT. (You listen to Nike!)

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Listen to what the sky is telling you.

~ A.d. Posey

Listen to yourself and you are heard.

~ A.d. Posey

The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can’t say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was – but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I’ve seen before – and I’ve seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would hold his, and clenched it so tight his knuckles turned white! He kept fading out as we carried him on the stretcher board the medics brought with them. Looking back, I think he tried to warn us, poor bastard. He tried to tell us to leave him behind and go, but we wouldn’t listen. We thought we were better than the Corsairs, remember? We thought we would be all moral and upright and try to help him. ‘Don’t say I didn’t warn you.’ were the last words he said before losing consciousness. At least, those that we could make out. At the end of it all, he was right – as it turned out, we couldn’t even help ourselves.

~ Christina Engela

So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.

~ Steve Maraboli

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

~ Steve Goodier

Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

~ Initially No

The most valuable action to perform when loving someone is to beautifully and silently listen.

~ Angie Karan

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

~ Debasish Mridha

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

~ Mark Nepo

To start speaking my language start reading what I read... start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened.

~ Deyth Banger

There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

~ Mark Nepo