Motivational Quotes

Words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Words

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

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mohammed

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

Wright, Steven

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

10.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

11.

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

12.

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

Zinsser, William

13.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

19.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

21.

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

25.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

41.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian 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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish