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

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Platen

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Wright, Steven

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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

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

Idle, Eric

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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.

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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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

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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.

29.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

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

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

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Mohammed

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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

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

Cather, Willa

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Lowell, James Russell

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