Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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

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 all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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

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

Platen

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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 have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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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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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

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You can stroke people with words.

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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 have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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