Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Card, Orson Scott

Best Quotes about Words

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Kirchenbaum

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

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wright, Steven

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

10.

You can stroke people with words.

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

12.

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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.

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Platen

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

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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.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Zinsser, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cather, Willa

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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

Idle, Eric