Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Words

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

Wright, Steven

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Phillips, Wendell

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

10.

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

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

13.

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

14.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

15.

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

16.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

17.

You can stroke people with words.

18.

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

19.

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

Fripp, Patricia

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

23.

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

24.

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

Gladden, W.

25.

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

26.

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

Parker, Dorothy

27.

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

28.

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

29.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

30.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Walesa, Lech

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

37.

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

Mohammed

39.

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

Renard, Jules

40.

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

Idle, Eric

41.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

42.

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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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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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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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

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

Reid, Thomas

47.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

49.

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

Twain, Mark

50.

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