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

Jordan, June

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Stalin, Joseph

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

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

Wright, Steven

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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 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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Kraus, Karl

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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

Platen

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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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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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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