Motivational Quotes

Words

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Best Quotes about Words

You can stroke people with words.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Joubert, Joseph

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Twain, Mark

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Lowell, James Russell

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