Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Silesius, Angelus

Best Quotes about Words

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Wright, Steven

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mohammed

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Zinsser, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Reid, Thomas

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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

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

Cather, Willa

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Kirchenbaum

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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