Motivational Quotes

Words

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Words

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

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

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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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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

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

Platen

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

18.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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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

28.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

29.

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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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

33.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

35.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

37.

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

Cather, Willa

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John