Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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Best Quotes about Words

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Silesius, Angelus

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.

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

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

Card, Orson Scott

10.

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

Eliot, T. S.

11.

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

Arendt, Hannah

12.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

You can stroke people with words.

14.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

15.

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

16.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

19.

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

Lao-Tzu

20.

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

21.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

22.

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

23.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

24.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

27.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

28.

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

29.

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

Diller, Phyllis

30.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

33.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Fripp, Patricia

35.

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

Lowell, James Russell

36.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

38.

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

39.

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

40.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

41.

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

42.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

43.

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

Zinsser, William

44.

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

Phillips, Wendell

45.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

46.

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

47.

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

Wright, Steven

48.

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

49.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

50.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig