Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Twain, Mark

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

11.

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

Stalin, Joseph

12.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Kraus, Karl

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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.

21.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

22.

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

Cather, Willa

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

25.

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

Diller, Phyllis

26.

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

27.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

28.

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

29.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Platen

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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 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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Zinsser, William

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

Eliot, T. S.

43.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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