Motivational Quotes

Words

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.

Best Quotes about Words

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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.

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

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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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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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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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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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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Cather, Willa

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

Twain, Mark

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Mohammed

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Zinsser, William

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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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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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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reid, Thomas

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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