Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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Best Quotes about Words

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Renard, Jules

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hemingway, Ernest

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

10.

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

Mohammed

11.

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

Kirchenbaum

12.

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

13.

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

Platen

14.

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

Ellison, Ralph

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

18.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

19.

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

Reid, Thomas

20.

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

Parker, Dorothy

21.

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

Walesa, Lech

22.

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

Arendt, Hannah

23.

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

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

25.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

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

Card, Orson Scott

27.

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

Kraus, Karl

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

31.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

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

Zinsser, William

33.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

34.

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

35.

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

Wright, Steven

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Silesius, Angelus

41.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

42.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

44.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

46.

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

Idle, Eric

47.

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

Fripp, Patricia

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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