Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Zinsser, William

Best Quotes about Words

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

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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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

11.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

12.

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

Stalin, Joseph

13.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Reid, Thomas

18.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

22.

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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

31.

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

Idle, Eric

32.

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

33.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

35.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

36.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

37.

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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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

39.

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

Kirchenbaum

40.

You can stroke people with words.

41.

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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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Cather, Willa