Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

10.

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

Walesa, Lech

11.

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

Eliot, T. S.

12.

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

13.

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

Cather, Willa

14.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

15.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

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.

17.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

18.

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

19.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

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

Fripp, Patricia

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

24.

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

Platen

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Kirchenbaum

28.

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

Zinsser, William

29.

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

30.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

31.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

34.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

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

37.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

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

Phillips, Wendell

39.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

40.

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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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

42.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

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

45.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

46.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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

Stalin, Joseph