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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Zinsser, William

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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

12.

You can stroke people with words.

13.

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

Walesa, Lech

14.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

15.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

16.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

18.

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

19.

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

Mohammed

20.

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.

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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

24.

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

Kirchenbaum

25.

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

26.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Diller, Phyllis

31.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Cather, Willa

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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

40.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

47.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

48.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

50.

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