Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Zinsser, William

Best Quotes about Words

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Stalin, Joseph

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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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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 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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

15.

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

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Zinsser, William

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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

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

24.

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 are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Cather, Willa

27.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Fripp, Patricia

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

32.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Joubert, Joseph

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You can stroke people with words.

37.

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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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wright, Steven

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

Renard, Jules

46.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Rohn, Jim

48.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig