Motivational Quotes

Words

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Words

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Mohammed

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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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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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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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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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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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.