Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about Words

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

You can stroke people with words.

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

Phillips, Wendell

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

19.

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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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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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Cather, Willa

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

Reid, Thomas

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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