Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Words

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

11.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

12.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

18.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

22.

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

Cather, Willa

23.

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

24.

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

Parker, Dorothy

25.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

26.

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

Wright, Steven

27.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

29.

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

30.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

34.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Lowell, James Russell

44.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

49.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

50.

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

Diller, Phyllis