Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Words

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

Twain, Mark

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

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

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

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Mohammed

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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.

15.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

Platen

17.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

18.

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

19.

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

Renard, Jules

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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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

23.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

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

25.

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

Phillips, Wendell

26.

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

Cather, Willa

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Stalin, Joseph

29.

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

30.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

31.

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

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

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

Fripp, Patricia

34.

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

Parker, Dorothy

35.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Kraus, Karl

37.

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

Arendt, Hannah

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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

Lao-Tzu

45.

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

46.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

47.

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

Woolf, Virginia

48.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

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