Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Card, Orson Scott

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can stroke people with words.

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Cather, Willa

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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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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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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 once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.