Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Silesius, Angelus

Best Quotes about Words

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

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.

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

You can stroke people with words.

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Twain, Mark

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kirchenbaum

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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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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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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Platen

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Zinsser, William

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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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Mohammed

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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Words are the money of fools.