Buddha Quotes

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

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.

The speaker does not own the words he utters, or control their effect.

We need to become more acutely conscious that words matter. None of us would deny that ideas and opinions matter, but we can sometimes be careless about how we express them. The words we choose to advance an idea, opinion, or point of view have a huge impact on how people react and respond to that view. When we use hyperbole, we increase the chances of being misunderstood and of promoting equally exaggerated counter-reactions, especially when people are reacting almost instantaneously.

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.

What you say in defense of … ideas matters, and what people hear matters even more.

Words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government

When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move … When the leader talks, people listen. When the leader acts, people watch. So you have to be careful about everything you say and everything you do

You see how powerful some of the things you say and you do can be on people, especially young people.

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.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Everything we do affects other people.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The medium is the message.