3,439 Quotes About Words

What a curious power words have.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Expression of anything Deep can only be felt, be it grief, bliss, or love. Words are a poor mode of communication, to express anything that is from the soul .

Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.

Nobody knows the words to use today. They are committed only to their individual furies.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.