Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Reid, Thomas

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

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

Twain, Mark

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

10.

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

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

14.

You can stroke people with words.

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

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

18.

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

Idle, Eric

19.

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

Kirchenbaum

20.

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

21.

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

Wright, Steven

22.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

23.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

25.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

26.

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

Mohammed

27.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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

29.

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

Ellison, Ralph

30.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

31.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Cather, Willa

35.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

36.

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

Kraus, Karl

37.

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

38.

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

39.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

40.

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

Card, Orson Scott

41.

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

Renard, Jules

42.

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

Diller, Phyllis

43.

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.

44.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

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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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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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

48.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

50.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul