Victor Hugo

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Topic: Communication, Listening
Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. — Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. — Victor Hugo

Dreams Goals Purpose Vision

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. — Victor Hugo

Age

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

› Victor Hugo

Knowledge Society

Intelligence

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

› Victor Hugo

Life Love

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

› Victor Hugo

Nature Perception

Change Choice Life Principle

compliment

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It’s a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. — W. Somerset Maugham

Goals Life

He who blackens others does not whiten himself. — German Proverb

Conflict Peace Society

Accountability

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Belief Confidence Self Self-esteem

Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better. — Emile Coue

Affirmation Confidence Imagination Purpose

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein

Hope Learning Possibility

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. — Dalai Lama

Respect Service

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. — Benjamin Disraeli

Action Passion

I am to bless the world through what I am. — William Thackeray

Affirmation Blessing Self

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Let your actions speak the volume. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Communication

Whatever you think about and talk about, eventually comes about. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Affirmation Communication Thinking

Your tongue is your power. Preserve it, it will preserve you. Betray it, it will betray you. — African Proverb

Communication Power Speech

Talking with a person is different than speaking at them. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Listening Respect

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

› Aldous Huxley

Communication

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. — Abraham Lincoln

Ability Communication

Nodding the head does not row the boat. — Irish Proverb

Action Communication Leadership

Many people who have the gift of gab don’t know how to wrap it up. — Arnold Glasow

Communication

According as the man is, so must you humor him. — Terence

Communication Confidence Negotiation Persuasion

Give thy thoughts no tongue. — William Shakespeare

Communication Listening Public Speaking Solitude Speech Thinking

Aloha is free.

› Hawaiin Proverb

Attitude Communication Optimism

A man's ruin lies in his tongue. — Egyptian Proverb

Communication Listening Speech

Fine words do not produce food. — Nigerian Proverb

Action Communication Leadership Work

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Communication

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. — Sophocles

Appreciation Communication compliment Friendship Gratitude Kindness

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt. — Seneca

Appreciation Communication Gratitude

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action Communication Leadership

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. — Horace

Communication

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. — Benjamin Franklin

Communication Intelligence Persuasion

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. — William Shakespeare

Character Communication Leadership Reputation

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

› Benedict Spinoza

Communication Happiness Listening Speech

If you done it, it ain’t bragging. — Walt Whitman

Action Communication

Talk can get you there, but action will embrace. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Communication

The one who listens is the one who understands. — African Proverb

Communication Listening

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. — Native American Proverb

Communication Listening

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. — Dante

Action Communication Listening Negotiation Persuasion

The first duty of love is to listen. — Paul Tillich

Communication Listening Love

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

› Leo Buscaglia

Listening

Listening is a magnetic and strong thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

› Karl Menninger

Listening