Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

10.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

11.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

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

Adams, John

13.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

14.

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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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

16.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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

18.

You can stroke people with words.

19.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Renard, Jules

21.

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

22.

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

24.

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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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

26.

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

Wright, Steven

27.

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

Arendt, Hannah

28.

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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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

30.

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 will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

32.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

33.

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

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

39.

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

40.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

41.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

46.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Glasgow, Ellen

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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

Platen