Motivational Quotes

Words

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Words

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

Hemingway, Ernest

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Woolf, Virginia

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

10.

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

Adams, John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

14.

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

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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

18.

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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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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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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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

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

25.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

37.

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Idle, Eric

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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