Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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Best Quotes about Words

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

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

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

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

Mohammed

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Parker, Dorothy

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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

Idle, Eric

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

Walesa, Lech

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

18.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Twain, Mark

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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?

Wright, Steven

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Spanish

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Platen

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.