Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Gladden, W.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

You can stroke people with words.

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

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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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 words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Hays, Ed

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

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

Platen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas