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

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

Proverb, Spanish

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

You can stroke people with words.

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

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

Adams, John

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Kirchenbaum

10.

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

11.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Mohammed

14.

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

Woolf, Virginia

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

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

Platen

18.

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

20.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

21.

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

Twain, Mark

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

24.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

25.

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

Cather, Willa

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

29.

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

Parker, Dorothy

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Fripp, Patricia

35.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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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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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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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