Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Platen

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

Woolf, Virginia

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Zinsser, William

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Walesa, Lech

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

13.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Stalin, Joseph

22.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

23.

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

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

26.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Card, Orson Scott

28.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

29.

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

Mohammed

30.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Adams, John

34.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

35.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Idle, Eric

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Fripp, Patricia

41.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

42.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

43.

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

44.

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

Kirchenbaum

45.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

46.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

47.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.