Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Words

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, T. S.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Mohammed

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kraus, Karl

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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

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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

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan