Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Words

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

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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.

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Idle, Eric

10.

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

Platen

11.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

12.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

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

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Mohammed

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

36.

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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You can stroke people with words.

38.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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

Cather, Willa

50.

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