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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Cather, Willa

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

Mohammed

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Zinsser, William

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

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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 are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Phillips, Wendell

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Adams, John

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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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