Verbal Impact Quotes

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

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

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

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

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

Words matter, words have import.

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.

What we do and say and show really matters.

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

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

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

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

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 alone are certain good.

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.