Motivational Quotes

Words

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.

Best Quotes about Words

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

4.

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

Kirchenbaum

5.

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Platen

6.

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

Zinsser, William

7.

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

8.

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

Card, Orson Scott

9.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

10.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

11.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

12.

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

Mohammed

13.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

14.

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

15.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

16.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

17.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

22.

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

Ellison, Ralph

23.

Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

32.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Arendt, Hannah

34.

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

Wright, Steven

35.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

36.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

37.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

38.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

39.

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

40.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

41.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

42.

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

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

44.

Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

45.

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.

46.

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

47.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

49.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.