Few Words Quotes

• You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Positive, Being Happy, Appreciation

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.153, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

  Epictetus

  Silence, Silence Is

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

  Robert Breault

  Trying, Brevity, Fewer

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• Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Written Language

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [40]

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• Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

  Joan Aiken

  Spices, Wise Women

  Joan Aiken (2015). “The Last Slice of Rainbow: And Other Stories”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Use, Littles

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• With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Soul, Thee

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• I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• To be of few words is natural.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Natural

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• It takes few words to tell the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Truth, Telling The Truth

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• To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

  Abigail Adams

  Men, Duty, Be Good

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• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Simple, Language Words

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• With few words, one can speak the truth.

  Bryan Adams

  Speak, Adages, Speak The Truth

  Song: Native Son

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• Enough.
  These few words are enough
  If not these few words, this breath
  If not this breath, this sitting here
  This opening to the life we have refused again and again
  Until now
  Until now.

  David Whyte

  Mindfulness, Sitting, Enough

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• A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Matter, Spectacular

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• The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

  Frank Muir

  Speech

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• We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

  Eric Hoffer

  Needs, Want, Conversation

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• Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

  William Penn

  Writing, Language Words, Plain Language

  William Penn (1792). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.130

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• The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

  Martin Luther

  Way, Spirit, Christianity

  Martin Luther “Commentary on Peter and Jude”, Kregel Publications

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• For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.

  Winston Graham

  Love You, Dark, Life Is

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• Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

  Louis XIV

  Death, Kings, Thinking

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• It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

  Mary Oliver

  Weed, Blue, Voice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk to the Creator of all-the One who fashioned our world with a few words-knowing that God not only listens but answers.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Prayer, Our World, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Jan 29, 2017

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• Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

  Albert Camus

  Independence

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.106, Vintage

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