Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Words

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

Fripp, Patricia

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

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

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Platen

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

Wright, Steven

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

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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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

45.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Joubert, Joseph