Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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.

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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

13.

It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rohn, Jim

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Platen

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig