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  • Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

    Faith   Powerful   Fear  
  • When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

    William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

    Mother   Father   Reading  
  • Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

    Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”
  • To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.

  • The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

    "Keeping Together in Time". Book by William Hardy McNeill, Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies, 1995.
  • Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

    Mom   Dad   Children  
    Gary Smalley, John T. Trent (1995). “Leaving the Light On: Building the Memories That Will Draw Kids Home”, Multnomah
  • Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

    Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”
  • The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

  • Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

    H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.494, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 02, 2016
  • Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

    Giving   Poison   Fruit  
  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

    1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.
  • Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  • The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

  • As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

  • Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

  • If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

    N. Scott Momaday, Charles Woodard (1989). “Ancestral voice: conversations with N. Scott Momaday”
  • There are things you can describe in life and things you just can’t. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell about… well, then there’s hope and joy and love – and those are beyond the power of words to describe.

  • Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

    Life   Graduation   Hate  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.119, Beacon Press
  • Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

    Real   Thinking   Self  
  • The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.

    Change   Army   Flying  
  • If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

    Book   World   Firsts  
  • Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

  • Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

    FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 15, 2010
  • He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

    Robert Cormier (2013). “I Am the Cheese”, p.120, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.

    Change   Faith   Yoga  
    Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”
  • Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

    Uplifting   Ideas   Focus  
    FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Aug 15, 2011
  • Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

    Food   Cooking   Quality  
  • I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

    FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 22, 2013
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