Motivational Quotes

Words

Strong words are required for weak principles.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Words

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

Kirchenbaum

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

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.

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

Zinsser, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Walesa, Lech

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

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

18.

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

Mohammed

19.

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

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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

21.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Diller, Phyllis

28.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Phillips, Wendell

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Idle, Eric

40.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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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

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Wright, Steven

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Strong words are required for weak principles.