Quotes About Words

Actions speak louder than words. It's not the things you say that are important, it's the things you do that prove everything.

Never mix your words with your mood because you'll have many options to change your mood but you'll never get any option to replace your spoken words.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings.

5 things you can't recover in life; 1) A stone after its thrown. 2) A word after its said. 3) An occasion after its missed. 4) Time after its gone. 5) Trust after its lost.

I trusted you but now your words mean nothing to me, because your actions spoke the truth.

Hardly ever do we hear anything that does not make us regret something that we have said

The consolation I drew from her words may even have had, much later, far-reaching and grave consequences for me,

The most mysterious, most simple, most atrocious revealed herself in the answer which she made me with an air of disgust and the exact words to tell the truth I could not quite make out (even the opening words, for she did not finish her sentence). I succeeded in establishing them only a little later when I had guessed what was in her mind. We hear things retrospectively when we have understood them

at that time I still supposed that it was by means of words that one communicated the truth to others.

I had allowed myself to murmur a few impatient and hurtful words, which, I had sensed from the way her face contracted, had struck home, had wounded her; it was I whom they were lacerating, now that the consolation of a thousand kisses was forever impossible.

But already there is the same fault, that paradox of stringing together fine-sounding words and only afterwards troubling about what they mean.

In my adolescence, when I believed exactly what I was told, doubtless, on hearing the German Government protest its good faith, I should have been inclined to believe it, but now for a long time I had realised that our thoughts do not always correspond with our words.

The truth which one puts into one's words does not make a direct path for itself, is not supported by irresistible evidence.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowledge, and our words which we suppose to be false forecast an imminent reality.

It is not for nothing," he now assured himself, "that when people pass judgment upon their neighbour, their finding is based upon his actions. It is those alone that are significant, and not at all what we say or what we think.

She refrained from uttering it? So at least I long believed, for at that time I still supposed that it was by means of words that one communicated the truth to others.

As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible.

Por que sera que las palabras son para los amantes y los silencios para los esposos?

I never dreamed that one day it would be one of my favorite everyday words. Fuck this, fucking that, don't give a fuck. I love it. It's perfect for emphasis!

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

She said, "'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…'" She parted the curtains, looked out at the brick wall opposite and the street below. "Never really understood the poem, but I like the way the words taste.

The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that. And neither should a good story. A good story ought to leave a little grey behind, I think.