Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

11.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Mohammed

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

18.

You can stroke people with words.

19.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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.

23.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Wright, Steven

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

35.

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

37.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Parker, Dorothy

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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston