Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are all we have.

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Words

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Ellison, Ralph

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Platen

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parker, Dorothy

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Kirchenbaum

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wright, Steven

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Reid, Thomas

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.