Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Words

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Kraus, Karl

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

10.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

14.

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

15.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

16.

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.

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Ellison, Ralph

20.

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

Fripp, Patricia

21.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

25.

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

Walesa, Lech

26.

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

27.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

28.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

29.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

33.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

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

36.

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

Mohammed

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

40.

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

41.

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

Zinsser, William

42.

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

43.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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

Stalin, Joseph

45.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

47.

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

48.

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

Phillips, Wendell

49.

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

Lowell, James Russell

50.

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