Words Quotes
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.St. Francis of Assissi
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.Theocritus of Chios
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicolas Boileau
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.Confucius
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.Mother Theresa
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self - Reliance", 1841
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
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
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
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.Serge Kahili King
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!John Greenleaf Whittie
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
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
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
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
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.Samuel Johnson
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
One picture is worth a thousand words.Fred R. Barnard
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
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.Aprocrypha
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
