Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Gladden, W.

Best Quotes about Words

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Card, Orson Scott

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

11.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

17.

You can stroke people with words.

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

25.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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

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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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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 the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Mohammed

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.