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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Zinsser, William

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

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Adams, John

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

Stalin, Joseph

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.

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

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

Card, Orson Scott

11.

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

Silesius, Angelus

12.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

20.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

21.

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

Kirchenbaum

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Idle, Eric

24.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

29.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

34.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Mohammed

38.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

41.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

43.

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

44.

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

Wright, Steven

45.

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

Arendt, Hannah

46.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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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