Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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Best Quotes about Words

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Reid, Thomas

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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 tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Mohammed

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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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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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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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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Platen

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

49.

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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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