Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Idle, Eric

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

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

Arendt, Hannah

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Mohammed

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

Zinsser, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

Walesa, Lech

12.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Wright, Steven

20.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

21.

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

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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

23.

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

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

27.

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

Kirchenbaum

28.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Kraus, Karl

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

33.

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

34.

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

39.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

44.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Stalin, Joseph