Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Haldeman, Harold Robbins

Best Quotes about Words

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Zinsser, William

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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 words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

16.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Mohammed

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

21.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

25.

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.

27.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Platen

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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 will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Reid, Thomas

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

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

Kraus, Karl

42.

You can stroke people with words.

43.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gladden, W.