Motivational Quotes

Words

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Words

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

Diller, Phyllis

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.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

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

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

Zinsser, William

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Fripp, Patricia

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

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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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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Cather, Willa

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

Platen

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

40.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Renard, Jules

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Rohn, Jim