Impactful Words Quotes

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

I try to make what I say count.

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

When you say something, and a thousand people are hearing it, you hope you leave an impression.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

I approach my interviews with the mindset of, exactly what are we selling? How can I sell it the hardest and the most effectively in the fewest words possible? And how can I make each word that I say mean as much as it possibly can? And I bring that perspective to the table because I used to focus a lot on the character that I had to play.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Write like it matters, and it will.