Motivational Quotes

Words

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joubert, Joseph

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Renard, Jules

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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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.

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Reid, Thomas

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

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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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

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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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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest