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

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

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

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Card, Orson Scott

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Mohammed

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 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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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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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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Wright, Steven

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You can stroke people with words.

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Rohn, Jim

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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 loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul