Our Words Quotes:

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Moving, Our Words, Privilege

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

- Alistair Begg

topic: Jesus, Our Words, Christ

Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.

- Allison Mackie

topic: Shadow, Our Words, Wonderful, Whole Person

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

- Amit Ray

topic: Practice, Peaceful, Our Words, Thoughts And Actions

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

- Anne Rice

topic: Giving, Suffering, Our Words

And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive

- Audre Lorde

topic: Morning, Fear, Our Words, Sun Rise, Sun Set

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Doctors, Desire, Our Words

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

- Betty Eadie

topic: Silence, Negative, Our Words

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

- Billy Graham

source: Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.435, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Our Words, Way, Speak

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

topic: Prayer, Heart, Our Words, Instruments Of God, God Has A Plan

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.

- C. J. Mahaney

topic: Inspiration, Important, Our Words

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Fun, Our Words, Might, Disheartened

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

topic: People, Needs, Our Words, Good News

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

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

topic: Communication, Events, Our Words, Thoughts And Actions

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

- Constance Hale

topic: Giving, Choices, Our Words, Luster, Word Choice

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

source: David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.56, Vintage

topic: Depth, Our Words, Ongoing, Reciprocity, Animism

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

- Declan Donnellan

topic: Truth, Our Words, Tools

You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.

- DMX

topic: Education, Thinking, Our Words

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

topic: Character, Our Words, Fiction

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

- Eartha Kitt

topic: Fall, Our Words, Entertainment, Edited

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Spiritual, Three, Our Words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Writing, Our Words, Literature, Looseness

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

- Freya Stark

topic: Believe, Long, Our Words, Recklessness

Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.

- George W. Bush

topic: People, Important, Our Words

If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

- H. Burke Peterson

source: H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

topic: Our Words, Deeds, Our Actions

We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.

- Helen Roseveare

topic: Perfect, Our Words, Use

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

- James Lee Burke

topic: Promise, Our Words, Break

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

- Jane Fonda

topic: Our Words, Affirmation, Awareness, Positive Affirmations

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

- Jane Roberts

topic: Emotional, Connections, Our Words, Emotional Connection

Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

- Jimmy Savile

topic: Men, Our Words, Credit

Our words set the direction for our lives.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Our Words

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Victory, Serious, Our Words

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Our Words

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

- Leonard Mlodinow

source: Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.117, Vintage

topic: Communication, Our Words, Fundamentals, Nonverbal

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

topic: Our Words, Way, Disaster

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Our Words, Speak

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

- Malcolm De Chazal

topic: Animal, Expression, Our Words

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.

- Marcel Proust

topic: People, Different, Our Words

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Communication, Our Words, Our Actions

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

- Marlo Morgan

source: Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

topic: Giving, Wish, Our Words, Choose Wisely, Freedom To Choose

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

- Matthieu Ricard

topic: Compassion, Our Words, Our Actions

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Our Words, Language, Lost

And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.

- Michael C. Burgess

topic: Believe, Important, Our Words

Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.

- Michael Hyatt

topic: Impact, Our Words

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

- Niels Bohr

topic: Ideas, Our Words, Tasks

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such....

- Peter McWilliams

topic: Giving, People, Our Words

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

- Plato

topic: Plato, Evil, Our Words

It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Our Words, Our Actions

Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.

- Richard J. Foster

topic: Discipline, Our Words

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

source: Inaugural Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 20, 1969.

topic: Learning, Voice, Our Words

Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.

- Sami Yusuf

source: FaceBook post by Sami Yusuf from Feb 16, 2012

topic: Waiting, Promise, Our Words

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

- Siri Hustvedt

topic: Fall, Thinking, Our Words

If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Understanding, Our Words, Deeds

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Long, Progress, Our Words, Lofty

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

- Thomas Head Raddall

topic: Live Life, Giving, Our Words, Hope And Love, Life Means

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

- Thomas Sankara

topic: Effort, Our Actions, Our Words

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

- Violette Leduc

topic: Talking, Feelings, Our Words

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

- Wilkie Collins

source: Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.45, e-artnow sro

topic: Giants, Our Words, Injury

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Writing, Our Words, Inevitable

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

- William Cobbett

topic: Men, Giving, Our Words

European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value even more. This is not the result of short-term gimmickry. We decided years ago to develop the relevant models and engines, otherwise we wouldn't be able to offer them today.

- Norbert Reithofer

topic: Years, Our Words, Able, Co2 Emissions

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

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: People, Our Words, World

Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Attitude, Stay Positive, Our Words

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

- Jean de la Bruyere

source: "Characters: Of Society and Conversation #32", 1688.

topic: Essence, People, Our Words, Words And Actions

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Our Words, Attention, May

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

topic: America, Support, Our Words

The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Devil, Our Words, Use

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

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

topic: Our Words, May, Our Actions, Actions Speak Louder

Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. 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

topic: Lying, Giving, Our Words, Actions Speak Louder

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

topic: Karma, Freedom, Our Words, Human Freedom

One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

- Philip Yancey

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: People, Needs, Our Words

We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

- Malala Yousafzai

topic: Believe, Our Words, World

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

- Plautus

topic: Our Words, Pouring, Labor

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Smell, Our Words, Tools, Misused

But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.

- Marcel Proust

source: Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

topic: Octopus, Sound, Our Words

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Fun, People, Our Words

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.437

topic: Wings, Our Words, Literature

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

- Terry Tempest Williams

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

topic: Our Words, Share, Honestly

The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Responsibility, Our Words, Lines

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

- John Calvin

topic: Sweet, Grace, Our Words

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

- George W. Bush

topic: Mean, Our Words, Pledge

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.399, Cambridge University Press

topic: Life, Religion, Our Words

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)

topic: Our Words, Genius, World

Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

- David Levithan

source: Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.47, Egmont UK

topic: Together, Watches, Our Words

As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.

- Masiela Lusha

source: Source: thecelebritycafe.com

topic: Choices, Stronger, Our Words

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

- Hannah More

source: Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.65

topic: Our Words, Deeds, Crime

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

- Desmond Tutu

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Our Words, Lost Trust, Lost

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

topic: Creative, Negative, Our Words, Destructive Power

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

- Voltaire

topic: Keeping Secrets, Our Words, Use

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Silence, Our Words, Benefits

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Truth, Betrayal, Our Words, Residual, Inadequacy

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

- Dwight L. Moody

topic: Prayer, Taken, Our Words, Serious Things

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.27

topic: Our Words, Belief, Action, Connexion, Belief And Action

All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

- Kenneth Goldsmith

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Media, Different, Our Words, Below The Surface

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Our Words, Sometimes, Deathly Hallows, Memorable Harry Potter, Harry Potter

I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling.

- J. K. Rowling

source: J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

topic: School, Our Words, Mouths, Dumbledore Inspirational

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

- Ellen G. White

source: "Review & Herald Articles, Book III of IV".

topic: Our Words, Passing, Reviews

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

source: FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 24, 2016

topic: Attitude, Hate, Our Words

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

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: The End Of The Day, Our Words, Cadence

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Inspirational, Our Words, Action, Firmness, Words And Actions

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Our Words, Helping, Should

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

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

topic: Our Words, World, Surface

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Knowing, Clay, Our Words

Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back

- LeBron James

topic: Hurtful, Our Words, Toothpaste

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Real, Thinking, Our Words