Motivational Quotes

Words

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Words

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

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Platen

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

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

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

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You can stroke people with words.

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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 all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

20.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

22.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

28.

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

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

37.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Phillips, Wendell

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Zinsser, William

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug