Motivational Quotes

Words

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Words

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

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

Twain, Mark

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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

10.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

You can stroke people with words.

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Mohammed

14.

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

Parker, Dorothy

15.

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

16.

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

20.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

Fripp, Patricia

24.

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

Adams, John

25.

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

26.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

27.

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

28.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Wright, Steven

35.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

36.

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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

43.

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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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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Cather, Willa

48.

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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Woolf, Virginia