Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Words

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Wright, Steven

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

Zinsser, William

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

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

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Mohammed

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Adams, John

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Cather, Willa

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Lowell, James Russell

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Idle, Eric

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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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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

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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