Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kirchenbaum

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Idle, Eric

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

10.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

11.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

13.

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

14.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

15.

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

Diller, Phyllis

16.

You can stroke people with words.

17.

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

18.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

19.

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

Stalin, Joseph

20.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

21.

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

Mohammed

22.

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

Eliot, T. S.

23.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

24.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

25.

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

26.

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

Kraus, Karl

27.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

28.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

29.

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

30.

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

Adams, John

31.

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

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Card, Orson Scott

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Platen

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

41.

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

42.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

43.

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

Reid, Thomas

44.

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

Parker, Dorothy

45.

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.

46.

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

Zinsser, William

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.