Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are the money of fools.

- Hobbes, Thomas

Best Quotes about Words

1.

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

2.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

4.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

6.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

7.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

12.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

14.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

15.

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

16.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

17.

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

Woolf, Virginia

18.

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.

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

Adams, John

21.

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

Gladden, W.

22.

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

23.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Phillips, Wendell

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Cather, Willa

32.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Lowell, James Russell

36.

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

Lao-Tzu

37.

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

38.

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

Card, Orson Scott

39.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

43.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Zinsser, William

45.

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