Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Words

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Fripp, Patricia

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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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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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

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

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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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You can stroke people with words.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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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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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 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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Zinsser, William

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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 do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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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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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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