Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Gladden, W.

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

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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.

10.

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

11.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

14.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

15.

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.

Chase, Stuart

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

19.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

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

Mohammed

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ellison, Ralph

25.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

26.

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

Reid, Thomas

27.

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

Phillips, Wendell

28.

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

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

30.

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

Wright, Steven

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

36.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

37.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

39.

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

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Platen

42.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Parker, Dorothy

45.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

49.

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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish