Motivational Quotes

Words

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Words

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Chinese

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Proverb, Spanish

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

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.

11.

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

Arendt, Hannah

12.

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

Wright, Steven

13.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

14.

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

Card, Orson Scott

15.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

17.

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

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

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

Lao-Tzu

22.

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

23.

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

Parker, Dorothy

24.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

25.

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

Kraus, Karl

26.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

27.

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

28.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

29.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

Fripp, Patricia

31.

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

Adams, John

32.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Platen

36.

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

37.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

38.

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

39.

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

Gladden, W.

40.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

41.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

42.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

43.

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

44.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

45.

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

46.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

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

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

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

50.

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

Phillips, Wendell