Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Words

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

You can stroke people with words.

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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

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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

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Twain, Mark

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Platen

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

Gladden, W.

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Mohammed

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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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Words are the money of fools.