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

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Parker, Dorothy

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Renard, Jules

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Platen

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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You can stroke people with words.

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Lehman, David

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Wright, Steven

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

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kirchenbaum

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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

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.