Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Joubert, Joseph

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

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

Zinsser, William

11.

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

Adams, John

14.

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

Kirchenbaum

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wright, Steven

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

21.

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

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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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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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Lehman, David

26.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

42.

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

Cather, Willa

43.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean