Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Mohammed

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Zinsser, William

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Kirchenbaum

22.

You can stroke people with words.

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Fripp, Patricia

28.

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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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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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

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

Cather, Willa

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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