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

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Platen

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

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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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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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

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

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

40.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Zinsser, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas