Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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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

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Zinsser, William

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

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

Mohammed

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

Cather, Willa

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

37.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master