Motivational Quotes

Words

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Words

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

Kirchenbaum

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Wright, Steven

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

Mohammed

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

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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