Motivational Quotes

Words

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Words

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

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

Walesa, Lech

15.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

18.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Stalin, Joseph

20.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

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

Renard, Jules

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

24.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

26.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Ellison, Ralph

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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

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kirchenbaum

46.

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

Cather, Willa

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

49.

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

50.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean