Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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.

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

Diller, Phyllis

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Reid, Thomas

12.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Ellison, Ralph

15.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Adams, John

18.

You can stroke people with words.

19.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

20.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

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

24.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

25.

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

Card, Orson Scott

27.

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

Walesa, Lech

28.

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

Stalin, Joseph

29.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

30.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

31.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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 are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.

Glasgow, Ellen

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

43.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

45.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

46.

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

47.

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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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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston