Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Words

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ellison, Ralph

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

Walesa, Lech

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

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Fripp, Patricia

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Spanish

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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.