Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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.

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

Fripp, Patricia

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Parker, Dorothy

11.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

12.

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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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

14.

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

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

19.

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

Zinsser, William

20.

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

21.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

22.

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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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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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

29.

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

30.

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

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

34.

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

Arendt, Hannah

35.

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

36.

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

Walesa, Lech

37.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Idle, Eric

40.

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

Twain, Mark

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

47.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean