Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Twain, Mark

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Diller, Phyllis

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Wright, Steven

15.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

16.

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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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 will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

Kirchenbaum

22.

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

23.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

25.

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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Jordan, June

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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

Zinsser, William

30.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

33.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

34.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

35.

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

36.

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

Platen

37.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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

39.

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

Cather, Willa

40.

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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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

42.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

48.

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

49.

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 are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul