Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Card, Orson Scott

Best Quotes about Words

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

Idle, Eric

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Parker, Dorothy

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.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

Card, Orson Scott

15.

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

Reid, Thomas

16.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

17.

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

18.

You can stroke people with words.

19.

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

20.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

21.

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

22.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

23.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

24.

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

25.

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

Kirchenbaum

26.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

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

28.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

29.

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

30.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

32.

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

33.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Wright, Steven

35.

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

Ellison, Ralph

36.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

37.

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

Kraus, Karl

38.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

39.

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

40.

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

Cather, Willa

41.

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

42.

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

Adams, John

43.

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

44.

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

Walesa, Lech

45.

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

Phillips, Wendell

46.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

47.

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