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

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

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

Adams, John

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

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

Platen

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wright, Steven

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

24.

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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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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

28.

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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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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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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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Zinsser, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Cather, Willa

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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