Words Quotes

George du maurie - sick i am of idle words, past all reconciling,...
Henry wadsworth longfellow - a torn jacket is soon mended but hard words...
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
Hazrat inayat khan - the words that enlighten the soul are more...
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Michael J. Gel
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Tennyson
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.
Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie
Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoove
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown
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
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?
Eknath Easwaran
Words divide us, actions unite us.
Slogan of the Tupamaros
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
Lenny Bruce
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
Patrick Overton
By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope
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
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
CIA Manual
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beeche
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
Sir Philip Sidney