Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Stalin, Joseph

Best Quotes about Words

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

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

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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.

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

Zinsser, William

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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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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

21.

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

Kirchenbaum

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Renard, Jules

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

32.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Phillips, Wendell

37.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Fripp, Patricia

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Mohammed

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Reid, Thomas

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You can stroke people with words.