Motivational Quotes

Words

The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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Best Quotes about Words

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

Mohammed

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

10.

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

Wright, Steven

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

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

15.

You can stroke people with words.

16.

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

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Idle, Eric

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Stalin, Joseph

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

31.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

32.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

33.

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

Card, Orson Scott

34.

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

35.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

38.

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

Renard, Jules

39.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

40.

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

Diller, Phyllis

41.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

42.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

43.

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

44.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

45.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

46.

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

Cather, Willa

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