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

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

Kraus, Karl

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellison, Ralph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Reid, Thomas

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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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 loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Zinsser, William

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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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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

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kirchenbaum

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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

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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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You can stroke people with words.

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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