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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Adams, John

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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

10.

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Woolf, Virginia

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Zinsser, William

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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All words are part true and part false.