Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Joubert, Joseph

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Zinsser, William

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

32.

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.

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

34.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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

38.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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You can stroke people with words.

44.

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

Mohammed

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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