Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Words

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

12.

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

Wright, Steven

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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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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

16.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

17.

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

Adams, John

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

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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

20.

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

Diller, Phyllis

21.

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

22.

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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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

24.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

25.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

26.

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

27.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

30.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

31.

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

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Stalin, Joseph

42.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

44.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

46.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kraus, Karl

49.

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

50.

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

Parker, Dorothy