Motivational Quotes

Words

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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.

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

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

10.

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Platen

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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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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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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

31.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Walesa, Lech

33.

You can stroke people with words.

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

Reid, Thomas

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace