Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Words

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Diller, Phyllis

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Idle, Eric

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

Reid, Thomas

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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 are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Joubert, Joseph

20.

You can stroke people with words.

21.

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

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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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wright, Steven

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

Twain, Mark

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

Eliot, T. S.

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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