Motivational Quotes

Words

It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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Best Quotes about Words

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

Card, Orson Scott

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Idle, Eric

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Cather, Willa

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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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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

14.

You can stroke people with words.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Renard, Jules

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Zinsser, William

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