Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

1.

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

2.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

3.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

4.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

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

Wright, Steven

6.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

7.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

8.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

12.

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

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

Ellison, Ralph

14.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

19.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

20.

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

Walesa, Lech

21.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

23.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

24.

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

26.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Woolf, Virginia

28.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

29.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

30.

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

Phillips, Wendell

31.

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

32.

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

Reid, Thomas

33.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

34.

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

Idle, Eric

35.

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

36.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Fripp, Patricia

40.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

41.

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

Mohammed

42.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.