Motivational Quotes

Words

All words are part true and part false.

- Kahn, Master

Best Quotes about Words

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

Ibsen, Henrik

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Platen

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Zinsser, William

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Wright, Steven

30.

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Stalin, Joseph

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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Kraus, Karl

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo