Motivational Quotes

Words

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Words

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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 loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Cather, Willa

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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

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

Zinsser, William

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace