Motivational Quotes

Words

Strong words are required for weak principles.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Words

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

Coolidge, Calvin

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Waugh, Evelyn

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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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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 alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

18.

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

Silesius, Angelus

19.

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

20.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Mohammed

27.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Arendt, Hannah

32.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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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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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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You can stroke people with words.

42.

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

Idle, Eric

43.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

Proverb, Spanish

47.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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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.