Motivational Quotes

Words

The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Words

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Mohammed

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

Fripp, Patricia

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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

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

Silesius, Angelus

13.

The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

14.

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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

16.

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

Wright, Steven

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

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

Card, Orson Scott

28.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

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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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stalin, Joseph

40.

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

41.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

42.

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

43.

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

Platen

44.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

45.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

48.

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

49.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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