Words
220 quotes: 20 by Keith Craft, 200 from other voices.
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- He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.
- Holy thoughts breed holy words and holy actions, and are hopeful evidences of a renewed heart. Who would not have them? To keep chaff out of a bushel, one sure plan is to fill it with wheat.
- How a little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chills the ardor to excel.
- I have always been fond of the West African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."Theodore RooseveltSourced
- I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.Blaise PascalSourced
- I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.
- I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
- I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of every body.
- If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that.
- If a man preach the Golden Rule as a sound rule of conduct his words will fall upon deaf ears if he does not practice that which he preaches.
- If any one tells you such a one has spoken ill of you, do not refute them in that particular; but answer, had he known all my vices, he had not spoken only of that one.
- If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
- If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
- If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
- If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.
- If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
- If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
- If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.
- If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.
- If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
- Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.
- In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther KingSourced
- In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.
- It is a great misfortune not to have mind enough to talk well, nor judgment enough to be silent.
- It is as easy to call back a stone thrown from the hand, as to call back the word that is spoken.
- It is better either to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
- It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humouredly, and so spoiling an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
- It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
- Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.
- Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
- Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
- Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds.
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee: it springs out of the most retired and inmost part of us.
- Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.
- Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
- Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
- Lies are like nitro-glycerine--the best of judges can't tell where they are going to burst and scatter confusion.