Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Fripp, Patricia

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, Spanish

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mohammed

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Wright, Steven

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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