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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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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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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

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Zinsser, William

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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.

Glasgow, Ellen

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

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

Platen

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

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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fripp, Patricia

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