Power of Words Quotes

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

Words are also actions.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

I believe words mean something. I really do.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

My father told and taught me that the word, can hit harder than the fist.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.