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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Stalin, Joseph

You can stroke people with words.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Platen

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Zinsser, William

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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 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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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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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

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fripp, Patricia

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Strong words are required for weak principles.