Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Fripp, Patricia

Best Quotes about Words

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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

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

Platen

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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 single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace