Motivational Quotes

Words

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Words

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.

Proverb, Spanish

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Kirchenbaum

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

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

Mohammed

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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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Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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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You can stroke people with words.

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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