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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Keeping Secrets, Use, Our Thoughts

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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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• Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

  Gene Wolfe

  Real, Believe, Mind

  "The Shadow of the Torturer". Book by Gene Wolfe, 1980.

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• If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

  Mitch Albom

  Goodbye, Sleep, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Religion, Virtue

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.399, Cambridge University Press

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• You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, People, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.350, Hachette UK

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• I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, People, Ugly

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• In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV...never had a garage sale.

  Erma Bombeck

  Meaningful, Struggle, Dark

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• Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

  Joyce Meyer

  Victory, Lines, Want

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• One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Thinking, Might

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

  Augustus Hare

  Heart, Humble, Hypocrite

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• When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.

  Pascal Mercier

  Thinking, Soul, Glimpse

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon”

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• Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sometimes, Deathly Hallows, Shows

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