Motivational Quotes

Words

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Words

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Fripp, Patricia

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.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

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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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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Kirchenbaum

24.

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

Card, Orson Scott

25.

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

Platen

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

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

28.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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You can stroke people with words.

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

35.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von