Top 100 Quotes About Our Words
#1. You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.
DMX
#2. It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.
Pope Francis
#3. There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. ... The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important.
Eknath Easwaran
#4. We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.
Paul David Tripp
#6. I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.
Kyp Malone
#7. It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
Anne Rice
#8. I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.
Terry Pratchett
#9. And when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive
Audre Lorde
#10. We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
#11. God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.
Jared Brock
#12. We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
Adrienne Rich
#13. Poems arrive. They hide in feelings and images, in weeds and delivery vans, daring us to notice and give them form with our words. They take us to an invisible world where light and dark, inside and outside meet.
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
#14. Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.
Georgia Heard
#15. Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
Abraham Lincoln
#16. Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
Melina Marchetta
#17. When we speak of ancient times, Rud Elalle, we find in our words things far nearer to hand, and all those emotions we imagined new, blazing with our youth, we find to be ancient beyond imagining.
Steven Erikson
#18. I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.
Darren Fletcher
#19. Inspector Hewitt flicked on the defroster to evaporate the condensation our words were forming on the windscreen.
Alan Bradley
#20. We live
in the small
spaces
between
our words
hiding
between
the said
and all
we cannot
say.
Lauren Eden
#21. We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Jane Fonda
#22. While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#23. Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#24. How can we know that we have talent until our words or the manner in which we speak them moves someone?
James Grissom
#25. Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.
Billy Graham
#26. Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.
Richard J. Foster
#27. Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.
Joyce Meyer
#29. It's very important to choose our words very carefully because miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.
Charles F. Glassman
#30. We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.
Violette Leduc
#31. There is great power in our words, because they
are thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.
Molly Friedenfeld
#32. God gave us music, so we play with our words.
Talib Kweli
#33. Try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But all of us are thoughtless at times and do not readily realize that our words and actions are going to hurt people.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#34. Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.
Joel Osteen
#35. With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.
Alaric Hutchinson
#36. Encouragement is about drawing forth a child's potential. As we raise and educate our kids on how to be good people, how to work hard, and how to do the right thing, we must find ways to draw it out of them, as opposed to "filling them up" with our words and values.
Kelly Bartlett
#37. Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough.
Kishore Bansal
#38. All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#39. Ws 7:16 For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and the knowledge and skill of works.
Various
#40. In essence, all of our words evoke, develop, and bring forth our reality. We always have the power to choose our words and our reality.
Julie Reisler
#41. for we have had our say, our words, our time for speaking, our moments of light
Bruce Meyer
#42. It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
#43. Our words set the direction for our lives.
Joel Osteen
#44. Those moments aren't ours any more. They're shut up in a box, buried at the back of a cupboard, out of reach. They're frozen like on a postcard or a calendar. The colours will end up disappearing, fading. They're forbidden to our memories and our words.
Delphine De Vigan
#46. Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#48. We have to take ownership for our words. Words are powerful. They can be devastating. If your words carry hate--if they shame others, if they make them doubt that they are loved--Hannah, you don't want to own words like that.
Kelly Quindlen
#49. If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.
C.D. Wright
#50. It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. . . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving
within the trees - then, fleeting words of consolation
would not suffice if feigned, and flippant words
confessed reluctance - our words
were meaningless uttered on the wind. . .
John Daniel Thieme
#52. Truth is never wrong but it is in the telling of the truth that a person can be right or wrong
Truth can be told so that it helps or hurts another, Therefore speak the truth in love ... Our words Should b a blend of truth and love ...
Tanu Reshma B Singh
#53. If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
Hannah More
#54. For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.
Amit Ray
#56. To write a book, we must write with our whole life, not just during the moments we are sitting at our desk. When writing a book or an article, we know that our words will affect many other people. We do not have the right just to express our own suffering if it brings suffering to others.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#58. God loves us faithfully. He loves me and he loves you just as we are, today, right now, right here, no matter where we are or what's going on in our lives. God listens to our words and hears the quiet whispers in our hearts. Each of us is given the opportunity to have a unique relationship with God.
Lizzie Velasquez
#59. Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.
Gail Sheehy
#60. The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
Sharon Anthony Bower
#61. We weave together the many skeins of our words,
Into poems and stories and books,
And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,
For all the care that is woven in along with the words.
Bree Verity
#62. Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot
#63. We see the world and our words in one impression, as if we're looking at a forest through a green filter. We can't see what's really green and what's not. If we were to walk around with the filter in our eye long enough, we'd forget it was there, and life would just be green.
Dave Logan
#64. All we can do is pray, Ma, pray.
No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#65. Every day, let our words blossom lotus in some one's heart.
Amit Ray
#66. We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.
Chip Ingram
#67. Although love is communicated in a number of ways,our words often reflect the condition of our heart.
Jennifer Dion
#68. If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
H. Burke Peterson
#69. Our strengths are built not with our words but with our actions,
Our fears are faced through those actions,
Our lives are shaped by these experiences
and our experiences are driven by our passions.
Where is your heart taking you...
Catherine Louise Birmingham
#70. Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.
Steve C. Roberts
#71. Psalm 107:2 says, "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so." The Scriptures tell us that death and life are in the power of our words (Prov. 18:21). Think about that - death and life are released by what we say. Make sure the words you speak are life-producing words. S
Dutch Sheets
#72. Everything we do in life is creating everything that's coming. Our thoughts and our words become things manifest in our lives. Each time my Master sent me to the right place at the right time.
Kate McGahan
#73. We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.
Helen Roseveare
#74. Every conversation does not have to be blatantly spiritual for God to make it positively effectual. Sometimes God gives us favor with people who are touched or impressed with how we express ourselves because God empowered our words even when the listener couldn't distinguish the difference.
Beth Moore
#75. Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm De Chazal
#76. Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
Jane Roberts
#77. You made peace," said the buffalo man. "You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here - and the people who worshiped them were here - because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.
Neil Gaiman
#78. What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.
Alexandra Fuller
#79. Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.
Paul David Tripp
#81. Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
William Hazlitt
#82. We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.
Erin McKean
#84. Our words are powerful, and they have consequences.
Karen Ehman
#85. True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#86. Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well.
Sayyid Qutb
#87. There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.
Jo Bonner
#88. Think about it this way
our actions speak truth our words cannot.
Na
#89. All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran
#90. Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
Francis Chan
#91. In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we remain essentially the same.
Gaynor Arnold
#92. We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#93. The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.
Billy Graham
#94. Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
Wilkie Collins
#95. Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
Plato
#96. Those who live no more, whom we loved, echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts. And what they did and who they were becomes a part of all we are, forever.
Richard Fife
#97. If we all were judged according to the consequences
Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention
And beyond our limited understanding
Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
T. S. Eliot
#98. Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
Saint John Chrysostom
#99. We who hold the pen ...
and like bricks we use our words ...
how stupid of us ...
how naive ...
to even think for a second ...
that the pen was ever mightier than the sword.
Non Nomen
#100. Our tongues can't compete with the rapid thinking of our brains, our words come out slow and slurred. The pen is our haven. There is a lot of fear buried into that little pen. It holds all of our agony, our torment, our blood and our heaven.
Coco J. Ginger
