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

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

Platen

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

Kirchenbaum

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

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

Fripp, Patricia

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

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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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Mohammed

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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

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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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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Card, Orson Scott

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Renard, Jules

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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.