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

  Voltaire

  Keeping Secrets, Use, Our Thoughts

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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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• 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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• When we can't hold back, or set boundaries, on what comes from our lips, our words are in charge-not us. But we are still responsible for those words. Our words do not come from somewhere outside of us, as if we were a ventriloquist's dummy. They are the product of our hearts. Our saying, "I didn't mean that," is probably better translated, "I didn't want you to know I thought that about you." We need to take responsibility for our words. "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken" (Matt. 12:36).

  Henry Cloud

  Mean, Responsibility, Heart

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• What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

  Susanna Moodie

  Memories, Evil, Faithful

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley

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• The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

  Amit Ray

  Practice, Peaceful, Action

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.72, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.

  Chris Prentiss

  Communication, Events, Action

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.42, BookBaby

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• Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Creative, Negative

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2012

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• One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Responsibility, Destiny, People

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

  Thomas Sankara

  Effort, Our Actions, Behavior

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.

  Chip Ingram

  People, Events, Needs

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• Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

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• If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Hands, Experience, Wish

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• To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Share, Honestly

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.12, Macmillan

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