Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Words

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gladden, W.

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

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

10.

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

Kirchenbaum

11.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

12.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

13.

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

Reid, Thomas

17.

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

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Zinsser, William

21.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

22.

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

24.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

25.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

26.

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

Kraus, Karl

27.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

28.

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

29.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

30.

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

31.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

32.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

33.

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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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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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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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

37.

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

Diller, Phyllis

38.

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

39.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

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

Fripp, Patricia

41.

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

43.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

44.

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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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

47.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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