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

Fripp, Patricia

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

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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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 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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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

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

Wright, Steven

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

27.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Cather, Willa

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Zinsser, William

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mohammed

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn