Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Words

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Platen

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Zinsser, William

12.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

13.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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

16.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

Mohammed

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

29.

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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

35.

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

Kirchenbaum

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ibsen, Henrik

41.

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.