Quotes about Words
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
— Mother Teresa
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed
— John Milton
Truth could never be wholly contained in words.
— Catherine Marshall
So much can be done, even when little is said.So little can be done, even when much is spoken.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Kindness beautifies your words.Love sweetens your words.Wisdom empowers your words.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
— Peter Kreeft
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
— Florence Nightingale
Because your voice is the most influential voice in your life! If you want to see where your life is headed, listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.
— Terri Savelle Foy
Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.
— Thomas a Kempis
Why doth a little thing spoken against thee make thee sad? If it had been more, thou still oughtest not to be moved. But now suffer it to go by; it is not the first, it is not new, and it will not be the last, if thou live long. Thou art brave enough, so long as no adversity meeteth thee. Thou givest good counsel also, and knowest how to strengthen others with thy words; but when tribulation suddenly knocketh at thine own door, thy counsel and strength fail.
— Thomas a Kempis