Top 100 Words Can Quotes
#1. Words can launch us. We don't need to be a dean to say words that change everything for someone. Instead, God made it so that ordinary people like you and me can launch each other.
Bob Goff
#2. Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .
Cicely Mary Barker
#3. The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. You never know when a moment and a
few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Zig Ziglar
#5. 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
#6. A friendly voice, though in words, can bring sunshine into the darkest of places.
T.L. Jenkins
#7. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
Mike Krzyzewski
#9. When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.
Greg Boyle
#10. I still hadn't learned the power of words. How, once they have left your mouth, they have a breath and a life of their own. I had yet to realize that you no longer own them. I hadn't learned that, once you have let them go, the words can then, in fact, become the owner of you.
Joanna Cannon
#11. There are times in a man's life when he says things he will never be able take back. It's true words can have a physical impact on somebody. A person can concuss with their words. Words can snap as fast as a trap in the woods and leave a victim to writhe for weeks.
Donald Miller
#12. We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.
William S. Burroughs
#13. There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.
Penelope Cruz
#15. Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.
Deborah Tannen
#16. Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Bill Watterson
#17. The body often contains emotional truths that words can too easily gloss over.
Esther Perel
#18. A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe.
[Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.]
Thomas Graham
#19. Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct
Marcel Marceau
#20. I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?
Stephen Colbert
#21. Words can harm people every bit as much as a weapon.
Courtney Cole
#22. You will feel more responsible for your own words when you notice how your words can affect lives of other people. You will feel touched when you really see how your words have made their life so much better. Those are kind of words that make you known to the inhabitants of eternity.
Toba Beta
#23. Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.
Deepak Chopra
#24. There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Orson Scott Card
#25. Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you
almost apart from their meaning
a thrill like music?
C.S. Lewis
#26. Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#27. In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and led him, step by step, through adventures so wonderful that words can scarce describe them.
Arabian Nights
#28. Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.
Euginia Herlihy
#29. Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
Charles Munch
#31. Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended.
Daniel Abraham
#32. Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.
David Gest
#33. (Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds can raise their performer above others.
Lao-Tzu
#35. A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik Ibsen
#36. Sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
Adam Savage
#37. Remind the people you care about how much you love them today. It will only take a moment, and it doesn't have to be an elaborate speech. It's a simple gesture but I promise, those words, can heal. Don't wait until tomorrow, it may never get here.
Carlos Wallace
#38. No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.
Richard M. Nixon
#39. Words can be terrible when the truth is unwelcome.
Amy Harmon
#40. Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff.
Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.
Shannon Hale
#41. I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.
Wilkie Collins
#42. Sometimes You Just Gotta Stay Silent Cause No Words Can Explain The Shit Thats Going On In Your Mind And Heart
Bryant McGill
#44. Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.
Tony Robbins
#45. I promise to be the one who makes your days brighter. When the rest of the world can't or won't see who you are, I will. I can't promise I won't make mistakes, but I can promise that you'll never doubt I love you more than my clumsy words can ever say. I love you, Nina.
K.M. Scott
#47. Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
Eric Church
#48. I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel
#49. The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.
Jane Hirshfield
#50. Words can so easily glide over mayhem and terror and horror, it is a miracle that trust ever exists amongst man.
Steven Erikson
#51. In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
Thomas Sowell
#52. In friendship, words can go unspoken yet you still understand.
That's why I'm sure that even though I don't say it, you know how special you are to me.
John
#53. Words can be borrowed but thoughts can never be stolen. You are a born thinker.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#54. Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.
Artur Schnabel
#55. Now, Neve, are you about to say no to me?' 'Well, it's just that - ' 'Because the word "no" is not in my vocabulary, along with the words "can't" and "Victoria Beckham".
Sarra Manning
#57. But even we, with our supposed mastery of the English language, were not immune to the shortcoming of our vocabularies.
Words can only help you if you speak them.
Bianca Phipps
#60. Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."
Martin Luther King Jr.
#61. When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this ... ' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true.
Michael Scott
#62. I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#63. It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
#64. When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's easy to stay silent.
Robert Walser
#65. No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.
Lauren Oliver
#67. Words can sometimes have a far greater effect on a heart than a kiss.
Colleen Hoover
#68. Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
Tony Judt
#69. What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don't misuse them, Daphne.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#70. Choose words carefully when you talk about people. Spoken words can
sometimes hurt a human soul so strong that it can no longer be cured.
Eraldo Banovac
#71. People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.
Demi Lovato
#72. A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.
Mark Barnes
#73. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.
Lauren Oliver
#74. A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.
Shannon L. Alder
#75. Few pay attention to the histories and the root pictures words can release. These neglected qualities are there, however, and the poets have always found them a self-delighting source of excitement.
John Ciardi
#76. The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
Hank Stram
#78. The most amazing feeling I feel
Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
Maybe I paint the sky blue
My greatest creation was you.
Jay-Z
#79. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
#80. It's like trying to describe a color you've never seen before. Words can't make you understand what real love is like. But until you've felt it ... you haven't really lived.
Lisa Kleypas
#81. Actions can speak louder than words but words can sometimes cut deeper than a sword if they come from the right people in our lives.
Christina Estabrook
#82. As I speak, I'm reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come out of the mouth, meaning that words can be like bombs themselves.
Lisa See
#83. Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.
David James Duncan
#84. Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
Elie Wiesel
#85. It's just words. How can words be dangerous?"
"You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more dangerous than words."
"That's stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead."
"Only your body," Billy said. "It can't kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#86. loving memory of my brother. Jerome, you are missed more deeply than words can describe. "Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.
Therese Heckenkamp
#87. There is no destiny so great it cannot be altered, Chase Williams. Stone can be broken, parchment can be burned, and words can be lost. The past is all that is constant.
M.R. Merrick
#88. Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.
Rumi
#89. Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.
Aja Naomi King
#90. My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
Frank Herbert
#92. No words can express what was happening in the pure soul of the girl: it was a secret for her; let it remain a secret for all and everyone. No one can know, no one has seen or will ever see how the seed summoned to life and fruition swells and ripens in the bosom of the earth.
Turgenev Ivan
#93. For sapphires we are held in here. Only you can end our fear." Violet said. "Until dawn comes we cannot speak. No words can come from this sad beak.
Lemony Snicket
#95. Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can't say.
Sophia Loren
#96. Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.
Craig Groeschel
#97. And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this ... This is always true.
Michael Scott
#98. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.
Douglas Hofstadter
#99. I didn't ask if you could read it,' he replies, still pleasant. 'Besides, words can lie. See beyond them.
Victoria Aveyard
#100. Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
Eric Hoffer
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