Motivational Quotes

Words

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Words

1.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

2.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

3.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

4.

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

5.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

6.

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

7.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

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

Reid, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Silesius, Angelus

15.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

16.

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

17.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

18.

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

Idle, Eric

19.

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

Kirchenbaum

20.

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

Adams, John

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

Card, Orson Scott

23.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

24.

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

Woolf, Virginia

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

28.

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

Stalin, Joseph

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

32.

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

33.

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

Kraus, Karl