Motivational Quotes

Words

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.

Best Quotes about Words

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav

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

Mohammed

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stalin, Joseph

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wright, Steven

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Zinsser, William

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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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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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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