Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are loaded pistols.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Words

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

Walesa, Lech

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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

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

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

Wright, Steven

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Kirchenbaum

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Reid, Thomas

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Card, Orson Scott

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Gladden, W.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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.