Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Ellison, Ralph

Best Quotes about Words

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Kirchenbaum

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

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Eliot, T. S.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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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.

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Idle, Eric

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Adams, John

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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