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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

Mohammed

11.

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

Card, Orson Scott

12.

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

Parker, Dorothy

13.

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

Wright, Steven

14.

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

Lowell, James Russell

15.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

17.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

20.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

21.

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

Arendt, Hannah

22.

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

23.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

24.

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

25.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

26.

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

27.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

28.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

29.

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

Platen

30.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

31.

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

Diller, Phyllis

32.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

36.

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

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Idle, Eric

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Gladden, W.

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.