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

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Cather, Willa

10.

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

11.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

12.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

15.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

18.

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

19.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

20.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Fripp, Patricia

24.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

25.

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

26.

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

27.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Arendt, Hannah

32.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

33.

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.

34.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

35.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

36.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

37.

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

38.

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

Diller, Phyllis

39.

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

40.

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

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

Platen

42.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

43.

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