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Quotes About Language

Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.
~ John C. Maxwell
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
~ Anna Quindlen
If you change your words to positive reinforcement, the negative reactions will lose their power
~ Bluenscottish
Music communicates with the soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Words give sound to the beauty of Life.
~ Todd Stocker
Where words fail, music speaks.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.
~ Lenny Bruce
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.
~ Emily Dickinson
Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!
~ Paula White
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
~ Thiruvalluvar
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
~ George Orwell, 1984
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
~ Adrienne Rich
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
~ Adrienne Rich
There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.
~ Tracy Chapman
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.
~ Isidore of Seville
Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.
~ Sonia Choquette
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.
~ John Clare
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
~ Roland Barthes
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.
~ Stephen Hawking
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
~ N. Scott Momaday
If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
~ N. Scott Momaday