Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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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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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

29.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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You can stroke people with words.

33.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

43.

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

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Zinsser, William

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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