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

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Fripp, Patricia

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

10.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

18.

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

19.

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

Platen

20.

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

Stalin, Joseph

21.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

22.

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 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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

25.

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

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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.

30.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

31.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

35.

You can stroke people with words.

36.

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

Kirchenbaum

37.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

39.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

40.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

41.

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

42.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

46.

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 wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

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

Diller, Phyllis