Motivational Quotes

Words

Strong words are required for weak principles.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Reid, Thomas

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Zinsser, William

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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You can stroke people with words.

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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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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Phillips, Wendell

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous