Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

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

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Idle, Eric

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

Reid, Thomas

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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

17.

Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

18.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

19.

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

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Gladden, W.

24.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

25.

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

Kirchenbaum

26.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Phillips, Wendell

31.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Ellison, Ralph

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

36.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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 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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

43.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

44.

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

Mohammed

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master