Words Quotes

Marcus aurelius antoninus - be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words,...
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
Henry fielding - a newspaper consists of just the same number of...
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Wilfred Funk
William shakespeare - thy words, i grant are bigger, for i wear not, my...
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.
Epictetus
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass.
Lewis Mumford
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.
John William Fletche
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 von Goethe
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Tennyson
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
George Gordon Byron
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
Russian Prove
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elde
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Chinese Prove
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Frederika Breme
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
Eddie Myers
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffe
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?
Buddha (563 - 483 B. C.)
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
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
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!
John Greenleaf Whittie
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
Home
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope