Motivational Quotes

Words

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Words

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Renard, Jules

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

Parker, Dorothy

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Silesius, Angelus

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Wright, Steven

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Reid, Thomas