With words we govern men.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
She was remarried to Aristotle Onassis.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the spell you cast. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see.
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.