Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

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.

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

Lao-Tzu

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Lowell, James Russell

10.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

11.

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

12.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

13.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

15.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

19.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

28.

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

Reid, Thomas

29.

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

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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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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Platen

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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

40.

You can stroke people with words.

41.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

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

Fripp, Patricia