Motivational Quotes

Words

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Words

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav

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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

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I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

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You can stroke people with words.

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

29.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

33.

It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

34.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

Parker, Dorothy

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Hays, Ed

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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Hubbard, Ruth

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah