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Quotes About Words

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.
~ Robert Leighton
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the departure strip, the dream-road. Whoever built it left numbers, words and arrows. He had to leave in a hurry.
~ Robert Lowell
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
~ Robert McKee
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
~ Roberto Bolano
What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don't misuse them, Daphne.
~ Robin Lee Hatcher
Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences.
~ Robin S. Sharma
A mantra is nothing more than a collection of words strung together to create a positive effect.
~ Robin S. Sharma
It is important to remember that just as our words are our thoughts verbalized, so our deeds are our beliefs actualized.
~ Robin S. Sharma
People really do reveal their deepest beliefs by their daily behaviors. And their sabotaging wounds via their spoken words.
~ Robin S. Sharma
materialize miracles in the world are your thoughts, your feelings, your words and your deeds. Exercise your mind to think only thoughts that serve your ascent to mastery and happiness. Sit regularly in feelings of gratitude, positive expectancy and love for all that you have in your life. Speak only the words of upliftment, abundance and encouragement
~ Robin S. Sharma
Sí, las palabras que empleas son semillas de la cosecha que recoges. Las palabras son poderosas.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Quería estar seguro, muy seguro, de que cada una de sus palabras era la mejor que podía ofrecer».
~ Robin S. Sharma
Words are the verbal embodiment of power. By filling your mind with words of hope, you become hopeful. By filling your mind with words of kindness, you become kind. By filling your mind with words of courage, you become courageous. Words have power.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Your thoughts are shaped by the people you associate with, by the books you read, by the words you speak and by your daily physical surroundings.
~ Robin Sharma
Words can inspire and words can destroy. Choose your words well.
~ Robin Sharma
Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.
~ Roger Zelazny
Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.
~ Roger Zelazny
I tako, kad se ve? ?inilo da imam cijelu ku?u na raspolaganju, odlu?ih se vratiti u knjižnicu i vidjeti što mogu otkriti. Osim toga, volim knjižnice. Osje?am se ugodno i sigurno okružen sa svih strana zidovima od rije?i, predivnih i mudrih. Uvijek se osje?am bolje kad mogu vidjeti da postoji nešto što rastjeruje tamu.
~ Roger Zelazny
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.
~ Roger Zelazny
But look around you...  Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.
~ Roger Zelazny
In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed on and built nests in there. Why should I not speak like a poet, with a commonwealth of language at my disposal, constantly invigorated by new arrivals?
~ Rohinton Mistry
Don't bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don't "purify" it.
~ Roland Barthes
T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.
~ Roland Barthes