Our Words Quotes

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

William Arthur Ward

Self Esteem, Character, Mirrors

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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling

Inspirational, Sometimes, Harry Potter Movie

J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Karma, Freedom, Deeds

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Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

Billy Graham

Prayer, Heart, Accomplish Nothing

Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.285, Thomas Nelson Inc

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Voltaire

Keeping Secrets, Use, Our Thoughts

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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

"The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

Life, Inspiring, Witty

"Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchil"l, Students' Academy, Lulu Press, Section Three, 2014.

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Afternoon, Literature

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational, Life, Integrity

Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.28, Cambridge University Press

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

George Eliot

Wings, Literature

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.437

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The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Billy Graham

Way, Speak

Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.435, Thomas Nelson Inc

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But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.

Marcel Proust

Octopus, Sound, Body

Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Knowing, Clay, Deeds

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If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

James Lee Burke

Promise, Break, Occasional

James Lee Burke (2011). “A Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set: Neon Rain, Heaven's Prisoners, Excerpt from The Glass Rainbow”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.

Rebecca Goldstein

Children, Play, Roots

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.199, Atlantic Books Ltd

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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

Bernie Siegel

Doctors, Desire, Patient

"The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius, World, Firsts

Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)

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We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

Shawn Anderson

Choices, Get Better, Quality

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...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.

Richard Hugo

Selfish, Real, Emotional

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But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

Declan Donnellan

Truth, Tools, May

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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Michel de Montaigne

Life, Success, Lying

Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

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Only let it be trust in God, not in man, not in circumstances, not in any of your own exertions, but real trust in God, and you will be helped in your various necessities... Not in circumstances, not in natural prospects, not in former donors, but solely in God. This is just that which brings the blessing. If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises. On the other hand, if our trust in the Lord is real, help will surely come.

George Muller

Real, Blessing, Men

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