Good Words Quotes

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  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.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Honesty, Integrity, Writing

  1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.

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• Good words are worth much, and cost little.

  George Herbert

  Encouragement, Positivity, Cheerful

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.297, [s.n.]

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Emotion, Silent, Persons

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• Good words are better than bad strokes.

  William Shakespeare

  Strokes

  1599 Brutus to Octavius. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.29.

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• I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Darkness, Three, Deeds

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• Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

  George Herbert

  Water, Buckets, Quench

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.327

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• If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

  William Zinsser

  Needs, Painful, Ifs

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• Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

  Zoroaster

  Three, Deeds, Good Thoughts

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• Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

  Laozi

  Men, Honor, Deeds

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• Comeback is a good word, man.

  Mickey Rourke

  Men, Comeback

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• And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.

  Bradley Nowell

  Life, Night, Unspoken

  "Song: "Don't Push"". "40 Oz. to Freedom", June 1, 1992.

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• Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

  Solomon

  Encouragement, Heart, Anxiety

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• "Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

  John Waters

  Perfectly Good, Rights, Racism

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• Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

  Zoroaster

  Spiritual, Heaven, Deeds

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• Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Praise, Spokes

  Oliver Goldsmith (1850). “Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Citizen of the world, Poetical works, etc”, p.111

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• My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

  Kendall Jenner

  Growing Up, Dad, Speech

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.

  Isaac Watts

  Stars, Heaven, Soul

  Isaac Watts (1856). “Twenty-Eight Divine Songs for the use of Children”, p.21

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• A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or make certain sounds rhyme or just imitate the other poets they've read. But this boy, he's the real poet, because when he tries to put on paper what he's seen with his heart, he will believe deep down that there are no good words for it, no words can do it, and at that moment he will have begun to write poetry.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Real, Believe, Writing

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• All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has a good effect.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Motivation, Thinking, Positive Thoughts

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.91, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

  Warren G. Harding

  Political, Presidential, Politics

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• Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.76, Xist Publishing

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• I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life." You can't do that. You can't decide that a word is forbidden now collectively amongst your group of human beings, that the word is a slanderous evil nasty word about homosexuals. It's not, the word doesn't mean that. And sometimes it's a good word to use in comedy. That's what your friend has to realize when he's at a bar just yelling out the word.

  Joe Rogan

  Mean, Gay, Yelling

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Lasts, Needs

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.18

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• You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

  Martha Grimes

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

  Martha Grimes (2004). “Foul Matter”, p.51, Penguin

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