Motivational Quotes

Words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Words

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stalin, 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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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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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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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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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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You can stroke people with words.

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

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

Cather, Willa

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Arendt, Hannah

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