Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Adams, John

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

Waugh, Evelyn

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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 of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Renard, Jules

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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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 tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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 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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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

44.

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Cather, Willa

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Twain, Mark

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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