Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

Lehman, David

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

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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 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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Platen

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Stalin, Joseph

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Zinsser, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

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

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Cather, Willa

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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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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Rohn, Jim