Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Kirchenbaum

Best Quotes about Words

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Ibsen, Henrik

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Mohammed

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

10.

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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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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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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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

25.

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

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

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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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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.

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.