Motivational Quotes

Words

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Renard, Jules

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

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Platen

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Zinsser, William

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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 money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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.