Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are all we have.

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Words

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Adams, John

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

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

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

Renard, Jules

10.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

11.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

12.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

13.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

14.

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

Parker, Dorothy

15.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

16.

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

Phillips, Wendell

17.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

19.

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

Wright, Steven

20.

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

Fripp, Patricia

21.

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

22.

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

Stalin, Joseph

23.

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

Woolf, Virginia

24.

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

25.

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

Zinsser, William

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

29.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

30.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

31.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

32.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

33.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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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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

41.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

42.

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

Kraus, Karl

43.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

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

45.

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

Gladden, W.

46.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

47.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

48.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

49.

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

Proverb, Spanish