Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Words

You can stroke people with words.

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

Eliot, T. S.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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.

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

Ellison, Ralph

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Renard, Jules

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Phillips, Wendell

35.

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Adams, John

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cather, Willa

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rohn, Jim