Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Zinsser, William

Best Quotes about Words

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Idle, Eric

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Stalin, Joseph

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Joubert, Joseph

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Woolf, Virginia