Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Words

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Kirchenbaum

10.

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

Renard, Jules

11.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

12.

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

13.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

14.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

15.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

16.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

20.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

21.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

Mohammed

23.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

24.

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

Silesius, Angelus

25.

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

Card, Orson Scott

26.

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

Ellison, Ralph

27.

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

28.

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

Cather, Willa

29.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

30.

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.

31.

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

Reid, Thomas

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

Stalin, Joseph

35.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

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

Diller, Phyllis

39.

You can stroke people with words.

40.

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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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

42.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

44.

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

Wright, Steven

45.

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

Platen

46.

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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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

49.

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

Kraus, Karl