Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Twain, Mark

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

13.

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

Wright, Steven

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

Kirchenbaum

19.

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

Zinsser, William

20.

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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

22.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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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.

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

32.

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

Diller, Phyllis

33.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

38.

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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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Renard, Jules

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

Mohammed

49.

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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah