Words Quotes

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
Pythagoras - do not say a little in many words but a great...
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out...
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer, The Odyssey
By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
Sir Winston Churchill
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will follow
Cato the Censor (?)
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickenson
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Edward Thorndike
If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.
John William Fletche
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Ricthe
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletche
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.
Epictetus
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao - Tzu
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
Victor Hugo
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton