"Most people do not listen with intent to understand they listen with intent to reply" - Stephen R. Covey
"Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you" - anonymous
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen" - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is what it takes to sit down and listen" - Sir Winston Churchill
"You may bring about the improved condition in your outward life which you desire, if you will unswervingly resolve to improve your inner life. I know this pathway looks barren at its commencement (truth always does, it is only error and delusion which are at first inviting and fascinating,) but if you undertake to walk it; if you perseveringly discipline your mind, eradicating your weaknesses, and allowing your soul-forces and spiritual powers to unfold themselves, you will be astonished at the magical changes which will be brought about in your outward life." -James Allen
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." - C. S. Lewis
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C. S. Lewis