Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Ibsen, Henrik

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stalin, Joseph

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Kirchenbaum

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You can stroke people with words.

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Zinsser, William

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wright, Steven

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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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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

32.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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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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 are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Words are all we have.