Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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

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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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Zinsser, William

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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

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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 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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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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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Platen

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mohammed

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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

Cather, Willa

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

Twain, Mark

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Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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