"The most important communication isn't the speech you'll give to a crowd. It's the conversations you'll share w/friends & family." -JoJo Tabares

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." Hubert H. Humphrey

"While you may manage to live your entire life without making a speech, you will not get through one day without communicating something to someone!" -JoJo Tabares

"Tis better to be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt." Samuel Johnson

"Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference." Unknown

"God didn’t make Cookie-Cutter People so there is no one-size-fits-all approach to communicating with them." -JoJo Tabares

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Dale Carnegie

"Persuasion is when you want someone to listen to you; annoyance is when they want you to listen to them!" -JoJo Tabares

"Communication is the most important skill in life." Stephen Covey, Author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

"You will not persuade another by cutting off his argument. You will only stifle your understanding of how to answer him." -JoJo Tabares

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere." -Lee Iacocca

"Do not mistake speaking for communicating.  One involves an ability and the other mastery." -JoJo Tabares

"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it." Unknown

"Do your best to communicate effectively while giving grace to others who misstep. Remember: when we put our best foot forward, we have yet to take another step." -JoJo Tabares

"The mind is like a TV set-when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound." Anonymous

"Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something." Plato

"What people don’t understand is that a leader isn’t a leader until someone believes in him.  A leader has to communicate that he is worth following." -JoJo Tabares

"Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace." James Bryce

"What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The limits of my language are the limits of my world." Ludwig Wittenstein

"Communication is all anyone ever gets paid for ultimately...and if you cannot effectively communicate, you will pay...not get paid!" Doug Firebaugh

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"Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee." Proverbs 4:24

"For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:" Proverbs 5:3

"The wise in heart accepts commands, but the chattering fool comes to ruin." Proverbs 10:8

"The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of judgement." Proverbs 10:21

"With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape." Proverbs 11:9

"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." Proverbs 16:24

"Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince." Proverbs 17:7

"A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but delights in airing his own opinions." Proverbs 18:2

"A fool's mouth is his undoing, and his lips are a snare to his soul." Proverbs 18:7

"He who answers before listening-that is his folly and his shame." Proverbs 18:13

"An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and disputes are like the barred gates of the citadel." Proverbs 18:19

"From the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied." Proverbs 18:20

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." -Proverbs 18:21

"He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend." Proverbs 22:11

"A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver." Proverbs 25:11

Psalms:

"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." Psalm 12:6

"He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation." Psalm 24:4-5

"Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous." Psalm 31:18

"Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues." Psalm 31:20

"Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile." Psalm 34:13

"For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it." Psalm 35:20-21

"And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long." Psalm 35:28

"The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good." Psalm 36:1-3

"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer." Psalm 45:1 

Romans:

"Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,"  Romans 1:29-30

"Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:" Romans 3:13-14

Titus:

"For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.'' Titus 1:10-11

"To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men." Titus 3:2

Zechariah:

"These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:" Zechariah 8:16

Zephaniah:

"The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid." Zephaniah 3:13

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