Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Carnegie, Dale

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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 wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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 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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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You can stroke people with words.

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Platen

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.