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

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

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Gladden, W.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Platen

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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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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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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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Adams, John

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

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Card, Orson Scott

30.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

32.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

33.

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

34.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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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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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Zinsser, William