Words Quotes

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

~ Phillips Brooks

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

~ Lois Lowry

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

~ Inga Muscio

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

~ Common

There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'

~ Elizabeth Mccracken

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

~ Julius Erving

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

~ John Shelby Spong

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

~ Olivier Messiaen

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

~ Venerable Bede

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

~ Francis Bacon

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

~ Martin Luther King

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

~ Saint Augustine

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

~ Eleanor Catton

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

~ Carrie Fisher

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

~ Václav Havel

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

~ William Morris

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

~ Jane Smiley

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

~ James Joyce

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

~ Adele

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

~ Gary Zukav

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

~ Bill Owens

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

~ Elliott Abrams

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

~ John Lewis

I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.

~ Ander Crenshaw

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

~ Michael D. Higgins

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

~ Jane Goodall

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

~ Chief Joseph

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

~ Bette Davis

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

~ Lao Tzu

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

~ Elie Wiesel

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

~ Anaïs Nin

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

~ James Beattie

The words of truth are simple.

~ Aeschylus

We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.

~ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

~ Hill Harper

Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.

~ Troy Polamalu

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

~ Theodore Sturgeon