Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Stalin, Joseph

Best Quotes about Words

1.

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

Zinsser, William

2.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav

3.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adams, Henry Brooks

7.

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

8.

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

Platen

9.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

10.

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

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

13.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

14.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

15.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

21.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

22.

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

Cather, Willa

23.

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

24.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

29.

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

Stalin, Joseph

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

32.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

34.

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

Gladden, W.

35.

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

Card, Orson Scott

36.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

39.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

42.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

44.

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

Lowell, James Russell

45.

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

46.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

47.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

48.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

49.

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