Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

- Huxley, Julian S.

Best Quotes about Words

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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

10.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

13.

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

14.

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

15.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

16.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler

17.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

18.

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

19.

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

Gladden, W.

20.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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.

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

Card, Orson Scott

23.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

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

Kraus, Karl

25.

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

26.

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

Woolf, Virginia

27.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

29.

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.

30.

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

Arendt, Hannah

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

35.

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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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

37.

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

Rohn, Jim

38.

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

Ellison, Ralph

39.

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

Walesa, Lech

40.

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

41.

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

42.

You can stroke people with words.

43.

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

Diller, Phyllis

44.

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

45.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

46.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

48.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

49.

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

Platen

50.

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

Phillips, Wendell