Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

- Huxley, Julian S.

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

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

Wright, Steven

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Platen

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

21.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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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

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You can stroke people with words.

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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

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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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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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

33.

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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Card, Orson Scott

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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