Careful With Your Words Quotes

#1. It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.

Rhonda Byrne

#2. What you think becomes what you speak and what you speak will manifest in your life...be careful with your words

Marcee Bonds

#3. Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

Carl Sandburg

#4. If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.

Ted E. Brewerton

#5. Learn the lesson: Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control. Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.

Robert Greene

#6. Be careful what you say and do around a writer; your words and actions may become material.

A.D. Posey

#7. I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

Robert Morgan

#8. Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes - ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

W. H. Auden

#9. As a man writes his fiction, his fiction is writing him. We can never change ourselves back into what we were, any more than I can change these printed words. So we have to be careful about what we write.

Ross Macdonald

#10. I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.

Patricia C. Wrede

#11. Taking your language into my soul, feeling it separate from sentences to words burning with flight, 'til all I have left are meaningless letters pushing fire through my veins. Words can draw blood if you're very, very careful. - Broken Places

Rachel Thompson

#12. We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. It takes just a step to show the other side of you that you never wanted to show. It takes just a word to start the words you never wanted to say. It all begins with something and it all starts somewhere. Mind the starting point and note the beginning.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

Miriam Makeba

#15. I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender.

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

Douglas Wilson

#17. With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking down everything I'm saying because you think I'm such a marvelous fellow but because your editors say go get 1,200 words or whatever on Chuck Heston.

Charlton Heston

#19. Be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Jinnul Jr.

#20. After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.

Florence Scovel Shinn