Words Quotes

"Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do."

"Nincompoop is such a brilliantly satisfying word."

"Sometimes words are harder than blows."

“Even the smallest comment can hurt in the worst way. I don't think people realise that.”

"Be impeccable with your word."

Don Miguel Ruiz

"If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"I like good strong words that mean something."

Louisa May Alcott

"If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way."

Seamus Heaney

"Kind words are the music of the world."

Frederick William Faber

"Words are all we have."

Samuel Beckett

"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words."

Stéphane Mallarmé

"Poetry is the art of using words charged with their utmost meaning."

Dana Gioia

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

Rudyard Kipling

"A word after a word after a word is power."

Margaret Atwood

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."

Pearl Strachan Hurd

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."

Mark Twain

"Words are the voice of the heart."

Confucius

"Every word was once a poem."

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa

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

Blaise Pascal

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

Margaret Cousins

"Speak such words that shed your ego; they soothe others and bring calm to you as well."

Kabir

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."

Peggy O'Mara