Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Mohammed

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

You can stroke people with words.

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

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

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

Reid, Thomas

13.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

14.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

25.

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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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 word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

28.

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

Fripp, Patricia

29.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

30.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Zinsser, William

33.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

34.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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

36.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

37.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

45.

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

Platen

46.

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

Joubert, Joseph

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean