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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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

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

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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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 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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Wright, Steven

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

Zinsser, William

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

Platen

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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