Words
220 quotes: 20 by Keith Craft, 200 from other voices.
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- An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.
- Aphorisms are portable wisdom.
- Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
- Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
- As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much, and say nothing.
- If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
- Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
- Be Impeccable with Your Word... Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.Don Miguel RuizSourced
- Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
- Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
- Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
- Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
- Better kind words to the living than fine speeches over the grave.
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.
- Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
- Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.
- Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the everliving, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed to-day, it will be found flourishing as a banyan grove, perhaps, alas, as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years.
- Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.
- Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are: the turbid seem the most profound.
- Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
- Do not discharge in haste the arrow which can never return: it is easy to destroy happiness; most difficult to restore it.
- Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
- Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
- Either be silent, or say something better than silence.
- Eloquence is logic on fire.
- Eloquence is the transference of thought and emotion from one heart to another, no matter how it is done.
- Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
- False eloquence is exaggeration, true eloquence is emphasis.
- Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- For one word a man is often deemed wise, and for one word he is often deemed foolish.ConfuciusCommonly attributed
- Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
- Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is in another's hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
- Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.
- Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
- Have something to say; say it; and stop when you’ve done.
- He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his peace.
- He has achieved a high measure of self-mastery who controls the invisible conduit extending from his ear to his tongue.