Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Words

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Platen

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

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

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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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 wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Cather, Willa

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

Eliot, T. S.

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Idle, Eric

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Twain, Mark

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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