Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

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.

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

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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

Platen

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

Wright, Steven

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

Fripp, Patricia

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Hemingway, Ernest

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kirchenbaum

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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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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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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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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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Zinsser, William

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo