Words Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old words quotes, words sayings, and words proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. Betty Eadie
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. Betty Eadie
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. Brian Tracy
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C. S. Lewis
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe. Words are containers. They contain faith or fear, and they produce after their kind Charles Capps
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more. Confucius
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. Czeslaw Milosz
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Gautama Buddha
Good words are worth much, and cost little. George Herbert
Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships. H. Jackson Brown
Don't ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs. Hamza Yusuf
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future. Jim Rohn
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. Jodi Picoult
Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there. Joel Osteen
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. John Keating
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. John Updike
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel it is, before all, to make you see. Joseph Conrad
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world Lawrence G. Lovasik
Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character. Lysa Terkeurst
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. Markus Zusak
Your word is your bond. Melvyn Douglas
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe. N. Scott Momaday
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired. Paramahansa Yogananda
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. Pearl Strachan Hurd
The oldest, shortest words 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought. Pythagoras
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. Robert H. Schuller
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Rumi