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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Sometimes its better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Unknown

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Lord, enable us to search our hearts and humble ourselves before Thee. Oh, for a closer walk with God, more faith, more sincerity, more earnestness, and more love. I must study more the Word of God. If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. The Master said so, and His words are true.

A. M. Mackay

These, then, are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James 1842

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, the are not easily eradicated.

May Sarton

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Lao-Tze 604BC

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Unknown

A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Bible

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

Antoine de saint-exupery

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

Tears are words the heart can't express”

Unknown

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Richard M. Nixon

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander the Great, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science and learning, he shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of school, he spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, he set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times.

Philip Schaff

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

Benjamin Franklin

And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.

John Hookham Frere

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

Aprocrypha

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Felix Frankfurter

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

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