Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about Words

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mohammed

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Reid, Thomas

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Ellison, Ralph

10.

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

Zinsser, William

11.

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

Arendt, Hannah

12.

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

Parker, Dorothy

13.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Kraus, Karl

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Card, Orson Scott

23.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

24.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

25.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

26.

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

Wright, Steven

27.

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

28.

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

Gladden, W.

29.

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

Cather, Willa

30.

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

Diller, Phyllis

31.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

32.

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

33.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

34.

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

35.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

36.

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

37.

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

Lao-Tzu

38.

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

39.

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

40.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

41.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

42.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

43.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

44.

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

45.

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

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

47.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All words are part true and part false.