Top 44 Quotes About Be Careful With Your Words
#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. Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman
Gail Godwin
#5. A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.
Lysa TerKeurst
#6. Be careful of the words you say; And keep them soft and sweet; For you never know from day to day, Which ones you'll have to eat.
Henriette Eiby Christensen
#7. We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean.
Jacques Barzun
#8. Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
Mary J. Blige
#9. The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.
Samuel R. Delany
#10. Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#11. Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he was being ever careful with his words.
Brandi L. Bates
#12. 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
#13. My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!
Alan Rufus
#14. My friends who are not from Sweden tell me that I'm more reserved or maybe more ... I guess the opposite of what a Latin American would be. Maybe because Scandinavians are more careful with their words and I guess it takes a lot to become a friend of a Swede.
Robyn
#15. Just be careful," a Seattle homicide detective warned. "Maybe we'd better know where to find your dental records in case we need to identify you."
I laughed, but the words were jarring; the black humor that would surround Ted Bundy evermore begun.
Ann Rule
#17. Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"
John Andreas Widtsoe
#18. It came to her, all of a sudden, the words he'd said to her in Lance's house.
If I'm hurt, you must be very careful. No, Tana, you must listen. You must be careful of me.
He hadn't been worried he was going to get hurt. He'd been worried that he was going to hurt someone else.
Holly Black
#20. I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
Anne McCaffrey
#21. Most of us have heard the saying, "You are what you eat." I have a different slant. I say, "You become what you study." In other words, be careful what you learn,
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#22. Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.
Jim George
#23. 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
#24. We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#25. There is a "yoga body" aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, "Wow, you're so brave," simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.
Kathryn Budig
#27. Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
Anne Sexton
#29. Be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..
Jinnul Jr.
#30. 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
#31. You like lies?" Shallan asked. "Good lies," Pattern said. "That lie. Good lie." "What makes a lie good?" Shallan asked, taking careful notes, recording Pattern's exact words. "True lies." "Pattern, those two are opposites." "Hmmmm . . . Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.
Brandon Sanderson
#32. Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!
Terry Pratchett
#33. Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
Will Carleton
#34. With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.
Dave Abrams
#36. Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
Confucius
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid. Then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal. It's a matter of how you pick them.
George Carlin
#40. Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.
Miriam Makeba
#41. So here is one tip, be careful how you say the words... sometimes people get it wrong once wrong it goes like rummor.
Deyth Banger
#42. When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.
Myles Munroe
#43. Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
Robert Grosseteste
#44. Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.
Tyler Perry
