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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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 are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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You can stroke people with words.

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Havel, Vaclav

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Twain, Mark

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