Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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Best Quotes about Words

You can stroke people with words.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Zinsser, William

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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Renard, Jules

10.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

15.

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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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

17.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

20.

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

Arendt, Hannah

21.

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

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

24.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

25.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

26.

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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

28.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Hubbard, Ruth

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

31.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

32.

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

Ellison, Ralph

33.

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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Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

Cather, Willa

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Mohammed

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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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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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Card, Orson Scott

44.

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

Stalin, Joseph

45.

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

Platen

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Reid, Thomas

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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.