Verbal Power Quotes

Man's word is God in man.

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

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

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

Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

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

But words are more powerful than anything.

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.

There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.

If your words're true, they're armed.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

I don't believe in the power of words.

Words have a lot of power.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.