Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Waugh, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Words

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

Parker, Dorothy

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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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

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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

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

Idle, Eric

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Zinsser, William

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

Twain, Mark

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Cather, Willa

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Ibsen, Henrik

43.

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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