Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Rohn, Jim

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

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

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

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

Wright, Steven

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Idle, Eric

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Kirchenbaum

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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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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