Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Words

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Walesa, Lech

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

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 we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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

Platen

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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

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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

Renard, Jules

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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

Mohammed

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Ellison, Ralph

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

Cather, Willa

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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Silesius, Angelus

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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

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel