Motivational Quotes

Words

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Words

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Card, Orson Scott

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

12.

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

13.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

14.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

15.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

20.

You can stroke people with words.

21.

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

22.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

23.

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

Mohammed

24.

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

Zinsser, William

25.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

30.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

31.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

Parker, Dorothy

40.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

42.

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

43.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

44.

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

Kirchenbaum

45.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

48.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

49.

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.

50.

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