Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gladden, W.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Mohammed

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Zinsser, William

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can stroke people with words.

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Adams, John

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cather, Willa

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

Wright, Steven

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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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

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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 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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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.