Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Joubert, Joseph

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

You can stroke people with words.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

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

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

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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

23.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Platen

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Silesius, Angelus

28.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Zinsser, William

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

Mohammed

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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

47.

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

Kirchenbaum

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu