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50 Famous Quotes About The Power Of Words

List Of 50 Famous Quotes About The Power Of Words:

#1 Orson Rega Card

”Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”

#2 Plutarch

”In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.”

#3 Rudyard Kipling

”Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

#4 Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill

”Eating words has never given me indigestion.

#5 Nelson Mandela

”If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

#6 Napoleon Hill

”Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

#7 Joel Osteen

”You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.”

#8 Henry Brooks Adams

”No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”

#9 Unknown

”Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.”

#10 Mark Twain

”The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

#11 Yehuda Berg

“Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble.”

#12 Markus Zusak

”The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.”

#13 Mohammed Qahtani

“Words have power, words are power, words could be your power also.”

#14 Leticia Rae

”You only have as much time as you think you do. Start telling yourself you have enough time.”

#15 Zig Ziglar

“There is power in words. What you say is what you get.”

#16 Joseph Conrad

”My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.”

#17 Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud

“Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.”

#18 Anonymous

“Your words carry amazing power. So when you speak make sure you uplift someone and never put them down.”

#19 Joel Osteen

”Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.”

#20 BuddhaBuddha

”Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

#21 Jodi Picoult

”Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”

#22 H. Scott Momaday

“If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.”

#23 Hamza Yusuf

”Don’t ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs.”

#24 Herman Bahr

“Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words.”

#25 Friedrich Nietzsche

”All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”

#26 Don Miguel Ruiz

“Your word is the power that you have to create; it is a gift.”

#27 Robert Frost

”In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

#28 Lao TzuLao Tzu famous quote

”Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

#29 Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway

”All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

#30 Hermann HesseHermann Hesse

”Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”

#31 May Sarton

“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”

#32 Emily Dickinson

”A word is dead when it is said some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”

#33 John Dryden

“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”

#34 Blaise Pascal

”Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

#35 Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe

”Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

#36 Jim Rohn

“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”

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#37 Samuel Butler

“Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.”

#38 Confucius

”Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.”

#39 John Locke

“So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.”

#40 Jalaluddin Rumi

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

#41 Alexandre Dumas

”All human wisdom is contained in these two words – wait and hope.”

#42 James Earl Jones

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.”

#43 Lewis Mumford

“It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man’s principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man’s other tools would be worthless.”

#44 J. B. Phillips

“If words are to enter men’s minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.”

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#45 Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

”We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”

#46 Gautama Buddha

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

#47 George Orwell

”The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

#48 Ingrid Bengis

 “For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.”

#49 Jean Baptiste Girard

“By words, we learn thoughts, and by thoughts, we learn life.”

#50 William Shakespeare

”When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”

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References

https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/winston-churchill
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Winston-Churchill