Our Words Quotes - Page 7

• Our words must seem to be inevitable.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Inevitable, Seems

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “Letters”

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• You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.

  DMX

  Education, Thinking, Way

  Song: Angel-Dmx, Album: ...And Then There Was X

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• The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

  Sharon Anthony Bower

  Compassion, Rights, Differences

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• True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.

  Sue Thoele

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

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• Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Way, Disaster, Sentences

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But all of us are thoughtless at times and do not readily realize that our words and actions are going to hurt people.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Hurt, People, Evil

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• If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

  Betty Eadie

  Silence, Negative, Understood

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• [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Greek, Age

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.115, Transaction Publishers

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• Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.

  George W. Bush

  People, Important, Diplomacy

  "Raw Data: Text of Bush Interview". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2003.

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• Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.

  Allison Mackie

  Shadow, Wonderful, Mets

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• Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Sorry, Dumb

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.470, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

  Cesare Pavese

  Fun, Might, Disheartened

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Different, Substance

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Dennis Joseph Enright (1996). “In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove”, Vintage Classics

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• Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

  Jimmy Savile

  Men, Credit, Habit

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• The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

  Adrian Rogers

  Devil, Use, Dictionary

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• Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.

  Michael Hyatt

  Impact

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2016

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• We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
  [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

  Plautus

  Pouring, Labor, Loses

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• It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Attention, May, Spirit

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• Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Goal, Personality

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• If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

  Hannah More

  Deeds, Crime, Commit

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.65

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• I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

  Freya Stark

  Believe, Long, Destruction

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• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Suffering, Awful

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• Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Reality, Keeping Promises

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.241, Mango Media Inc.

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• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Animal, Expression, Coincidence

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