Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Words

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Kirchenbaum

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

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

Cather, Willa

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Platen

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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 are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo