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

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

Wright, Steven

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Idle, Eric

12.

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

Parker, Dorothy

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Reid, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

21.

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

22.

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

Kraus, Karl

23.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

24.

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

25.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

26.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

31.

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

Stalin, Joseph

32.

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

Platen

33.

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

34.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

35.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

36.

You can stroke people with words.

37.

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

Mohammed

38.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

39.

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

Zinsser, William

40.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

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

44.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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

Eliot, T. S.