Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Ellison, Ralph

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Silesius, Angelus

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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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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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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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Cather, Willa

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mohammed

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

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