Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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Best Quotes about Words

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

10.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Platen

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Idle, Eric

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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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

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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