Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Platen

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Cather, Willa

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

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

Mohammed

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Adams, John

28.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Zinsser, William

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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You can stroke people with words.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert