Motivational Quotes

Words

Strong words are required for weak principles.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Words

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Mohammed

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Renard, Jules

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

41.

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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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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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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