Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Words

1.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

2.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

3.

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

4.

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

Phillips, Wendell

5.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

6.

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

Ellison, Ralph

7.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

11.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

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

15.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Silesius, Angelus

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

23.

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

Zinsser, William

24.

The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

25.

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

Card, Orson Scott

26.

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

27.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Reid, Thomas

29.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

30.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Wright, Steven

37.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

38.

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