Motivational Quotes

Words

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Words

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

Adams, John

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

Kirchenbaum

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

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

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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 wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Zinsser, William

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

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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

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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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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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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Mohammed

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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.