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

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Stalin, Joseph

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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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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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 of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Cather, Willa

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

Fripp, Patricia

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Mohammed

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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