Motivational Quotes

Words

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Words

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cather, Willa

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Platen

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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

Kirchenbaum

10.

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

11.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

13.

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

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

Zinsser, William

15.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

18.

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

Mohammed

19.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

20.

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

Parker, Dorothy

21.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

22.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

25.

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

26.

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

Arendt, Hannah

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

29.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

30.

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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.

33.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

34.

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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

39.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.