Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Ibsen, Henrik

Best Quotes about Words

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

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

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Renard, Jules

11.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

12.

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

13.

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

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Waugh, Evelyn

22.

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

23.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wright, Steven

35.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 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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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

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

Reid, Thomas

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Stalin, Joseph

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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

48.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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