Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

You can stroke people with words.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Walesa, Lech

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Phillips, Wendell

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Kirchenbaum

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

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Cather, Willa

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

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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