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

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

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

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

Coolidge, Calvin

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Idle, Eric

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Reid, Thomas

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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

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Cather, Willa

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Mohammed

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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