Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Words

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

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wright, Steven

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

Proverb, Spanish

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Platen

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Mohammed

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

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

Kirchenbaum

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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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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.