Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Adams, John

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

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

Platen

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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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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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

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Fripp, Patricia

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Wright, Steven

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Mohammed

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

Twain, Mark

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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