Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Zinsser, William

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

Platen

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cather, Willa

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Renard, Jules

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Hays, Ed

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

Ellison, Ralph

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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.