Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Words

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Ibsen, Henrik

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, Spanish

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

10.

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

11.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Walesa, Lech

17.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

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

19.

You can stroke people with words.

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

23.

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

Reid, Thomas

24.

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

Parker, Dorothy

25.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

26.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Idle, Eric

30.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

31.

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

32.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

33.

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

Card, Orson Scott

34.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

35.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

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

Lao-Tzu

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Gladden, W.

47.

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

48.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

49.

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

Arendt, Hannah

50.

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