Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Words

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Coolidge, Calvin

You can stroke people with words.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

10.

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

Diller, Phyllis

11.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

12.

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

Fripp, Patricia

13.

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

14.

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

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

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

Ellison, Ralph

19.

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

Stalin, Joseph

20.

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

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

Platen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Woolf, Virginia

28.

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

Silesius, Angelus

29.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

30.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Reid, Thomas

38.

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

Wright, Steven

39.

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

Zinsser, William

40.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

41.

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

Kraus, Karl

42.

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

Mohammed

43.

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

Renard, Jules

44.

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

Lao-Tzu

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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

Eliot, T. S.