Our Words Quotes - Page 3

• Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

  Joyce Meyer

  Creative, Negative, Today

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• Teach your children to listen carefully and to speak thoughtfully. The best way to teach this is to listen carefully and speak thoughtfully to your children, from the time they are babies. Take their questions and ideas seriously... learning to speak and listen as if our words matter is fundamental to education. Dialogue is not the same as mindless chatter. Above all, listen, listen, and listen to your kids.

  Grace Llewellyn

  Baby, Children, Kids

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• When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Pledge

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• Today I weep for my country. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance....After war has ended the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe.

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Strong, War

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• Marriage and parenting are the two strongest vows anyone will ever make. When you see these commitments being carelessly discarded, you can be certain that the ethics of that generation have been abandoned. ... What our society needs is a good dose of biblical ethic from God's people - the kind of ethic that requires us to keep our word no matter what the costs. Situational ethics have so shaped our society that even God's people have lost the concept of absolutes when it comes to keeping our word.

  Larry Burkett

  Commitment, Biblical, Two

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• If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

  George Muller

  Reality, Trust In The Lord, Arise

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• The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

  Paul Haggis

  America, Support, World

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• I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.

  Darren Fletcher

  Meaningful, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Religious, Lying, Ambition

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• I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Want

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• It is essential that America's word be good. And so I know that this campaign has caused some questioning and worries on the part of many leaders across the globe. I've talked with a number of them. But I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Numbers, America

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  The End Of The Day, Cadence, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Confused, Struggle, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

  Michael Hyatt

  Honesty, Integrity, Reality

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• Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

  Carlos Castaneda

  World, Surface, Dialogue

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Rights, Acting

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.95, Cornell University Press

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• Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Character, Fiction, Villain

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• ... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

  Frances Wright

  Men, Self, Broken

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.115

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• Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're gonna have to change. We're gonna have to change.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Prayer, School

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• Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? Language is also a place of struggle. The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Moving, Voice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.160, Routledge

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• Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  People, World, Bless

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• We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

  Louie Giglio

  May, Our Actions, Speak

  Louie Giglio (2009). “Wired: Student Edition of The Air I Breathe”, p.13, Multnomah

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• We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

  Nelson Mandela

  Attitude, Hate, Lips

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 24, 2016

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• As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

  Edmond Jabes

  Voice, Long, Soul

  Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.261, Wesleyan University Press

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• Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

  Desmond Tutu

  Lost Trust, Lost, Ifs

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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