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

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

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Joubert, Joseph

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Walesa, Lech

14.

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

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

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

Stalin, Joseph

17.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

Adams, John

20.

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

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

23.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

24.

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

25.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

26.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

30.

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

Platen

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Gladden, W.

34.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

38.

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.

39.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

40.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Reid, Thomas

42.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

43.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

44.

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

Ellison, Ralph

45.

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

Idle, Eric

46.

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston

47.

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

48.

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

Fripp, Patricia

49.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

50.

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