- By Ridam Sharma
- Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:33 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Happy Day of Listening 2025 Quotes: This year, the Day of Listening is celebrated on November 28th to remind the world of the value the stories hold and also to foster the emotions of empathy by listening. Traditionally, the day is celebrated, the day after Thanksgiving, to carry forward the vibe of togetherness and communal harmony by being there for each other. Sometimes all a person needs is someone who can listen to their problems patiently. The day also promotes spending time with friends and family and listening to their life stories. Here is a list of more than 20 heartwarming quotes about listening and empathy for the National Day of Listening.
List Of Heartwarming Quotes About Listening And Empathy For Happy Day Of Listening 2025:
1. "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson
2. "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." - Bryant H McGill
3. "If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk." - Robert Baden-Powell
4. "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said." - Peter Drucker
5. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
6. "If speaking is silver, then listening is gold." - Turkish Proverb
7. "Contrary to popular opinion, listening is not a passive activity. It is the most active thing you can do." - Chris Voss
8. "To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear." - Mark Nepo
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9. "He listens well who takes notes." - Dante Alighieri
10. "It takes a great man to be a good listener." - Calvin Coolidge
11. "Empathy is the only human superpower; it can shrink distance, cut through social and power hierarchies, and transcend differences." - Elizabeth Thomas
12. "To listen with empathy is an act of love." - Brené Brown
13. "I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilisation." - Ernest Hemingway
14. "The opposite of anger is not calmness, it's empathy." - Roger Ebert
15. "The highest form of knowledge is empathy." - Mehmet Oz
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16. "Empathy is like giving someone a psychological hug." - Bill Bullard
17. "The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy; we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other." - Meryl Streep
18. "Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing." - Marshall B Rosenberg
19. "Compassion is all-inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries." - Amit Ray
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20. "Listening is a magnetic and strange 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 A Menninger
21. "Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening." - Thich Nhat Hanh
22. "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
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23. "Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference." - David Augsburger
24. "A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end, he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with." - Mother Theresa
Each of the above-mentioned quotes beautifully fosters the importance of being there for each other, listening to each other and making them feel heard in a world where nobody really has time for each other. The national day of listening is also about being compassionate towards each other’s feelings and promoting global harmony.
