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 have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Waugh, Evelyn

10.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

14.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Diller, Phyllis

26.

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

Phillips, Wendell

27.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Idle, Eric

30.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

32.

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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

35.

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

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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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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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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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

41.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

46.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

47.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

48.

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