Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are the money of fools.

- Hobbes, Thomas

Best Quotes about Words

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

You can stroke people with words.

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

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

Wright, Steven

10.

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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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

12.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

13.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

14.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

15.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

16.

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

Zinsser, William

17.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

21.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Waugh, Evelyn

23.

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

Silesius, Angelus

25.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

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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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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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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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.

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

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

Stalin, Joseph

32.

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

33.

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

Platen

34.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

38.

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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

40.

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Card, Orson Scott

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

44.

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

45.

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

46.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

49.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

50.

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

Diller, Phyllis