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

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

Fripp, Patricia

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Mohammed

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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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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

12.

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

Platen

13.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Arendt, Hannah

19.

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

21.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

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

Zinsser, William

23.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

24.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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.

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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

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

29.

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

Kraus, Karl

30.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

31.

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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

33.

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

34.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

35.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Stalin, Joseph

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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.

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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

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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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