Motivational Quotes

Words

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Words

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Platen

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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 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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Zinsser, William

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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