Motivational Quotes

Words

Strong words are required for weak principles.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Twain, Mark

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Zinsser, William

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Platen

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von