Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Renard, Jules

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

Glasgow, Ellen

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

10.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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.

12.

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

Zinsser, William

13.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

17.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Arendt, Hannah

21.

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

Kirchenbaum

22.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

23.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Platen

25.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

26.

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

Stalin, Joseph

27.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

28.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

32.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

34.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

35.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

37.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

38.

You can stroke people with words.

39.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

40.

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

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Silesius, Angelus

45.

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 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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

50.

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