Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Zinsser, William

Best Quotes about Words

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Proverb, Spanish

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

11.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

12.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

13.

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

14.

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

Card, Orson Scott

15.

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

16.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

17.

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

18.

Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

19.

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

Walesa, Lech

20.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

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

Wright, Steven

22.

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

23.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Mohammed

28.

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

29.

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

Woolf, Virginia

30.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

31.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

36.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

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

38.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

39.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

40.

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.

41.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

42.

Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

43.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

44.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

46.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

47.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

48.

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

Fripp, Patricia

49.

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 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