Motivational Quotes

Words

Strong words are required for weak principles.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Words

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kraus, Karl

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Platen

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mohammed

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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Cather, Willa

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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