Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Words

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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.

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

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

Cather, Willa

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

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

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Card, Orson Scott

10.

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

11.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

14.

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

Idle, Eric

15.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Phillips, Wendell

17.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

18.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

19.

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

20.

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

Eliot, T. S.

21.

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

Renard, Jules

22.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

24.

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

25.

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

Gladden, W.

26.

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

27.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

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

29.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

30.

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

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

32.

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

33.

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

Zinsser, William

34.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

35.

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

Wright, Steven

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

38.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

39.

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

Kirchenbaum

40.

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

Reid, Thomas

41.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

Walesa, Lech

43.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

44.

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

45.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

46.

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

47.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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