Motivational Quotes

Words

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Words

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cather, Willa

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mohammed

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Parker, Dorothy

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

12.

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

13.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

14.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

15.

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

Gladden, W.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

You can stroke people with words.

19.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

23.

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

Platen

24.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

27.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

29.

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

Stalin, Joseph

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

32.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

33.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

34.

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 word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

36.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

38.

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

Idle, Eric

39.

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

40.

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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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

42.

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

Silesius, Angelus

43.

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

Card, Orson Scott

44.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

45.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

46.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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.

48.

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

Kirchenbaum

49.

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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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