Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Stalin, Joseph

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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 have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Mohammed

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Phillips, Wendell