Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Cather, Willa

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Kirchenbaum

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

10.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

11.

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

12.

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

Wright, Steven

13.

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.

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

16.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

17.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

19.

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

Walesa, Lech

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

22.

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

Fripp, Patricia

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

31.

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

Phillips, Wendell

32.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

33.

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

34.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

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

Lowell, James Russell

36.

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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

41.

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

Reid, Thomas

42.

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

43.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

45.

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

46.

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

Rohn, Jim

47.

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

48.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

49.

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