Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Words

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lao-Tzu

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Zinsser, William

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

10.

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

11.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

12.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

You can stroke people with words.

17.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

18.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

22.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

23.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

24.

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.

25.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

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

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

28.

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

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.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

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

Parker, Dorothy

36.

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

37.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

38.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Cather, Willa

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

45.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

46.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

47.

Words are loaded pistols.