Words Quotes
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.George Eliot
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.George Eliot
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.Mother Teresa
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.Martin Luthe
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.Menande
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.Author Unknown
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.John Christian Bovee
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.Jewish Prove
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
Speak what you think to - Day in words as hard as cannon - Balls and to - Morrow speak what to - Morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to - Day.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.Unknown
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.Penelope Fitzgerald
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation - Rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.William Cowpe
Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.Alexander Pope
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Words must be weighed, not counted.Polish Prove
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
