Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Words

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

Twain, Mark

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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 of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Stalin, Joseph

10.

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

Platen

11.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

13.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

17.

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

Mohammed

18.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

19.

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

Idle, Eric

20.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

21.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

23.

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

24.

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

30.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

31.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

32.

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

Walesa, Lech

33.

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

34.

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

Phillips, Wendell

35.

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

Woolf, Virginia

36.

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

37.

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

Silesius, Angelus

38.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

39.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

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

Zinsser, William

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

44.

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

Fripp, Patricia

45.

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

Gladden, W.

46.

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

47.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

48.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

49.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

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