Motivational Quotes

Words

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Best Quotes about Words

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

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

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

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

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diller, Phyllis

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Renard, Jules

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

Zinsser, William

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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Kirchenbaum