Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

Ellen G. White

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Terry Tempest Williams

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

Joel Osteen

Our words set the direction for our lives.

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

Jane Fonda

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Desmond Tutu

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

Plautus

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

Hannah More

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

J. K. Rowling

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Billy Graham

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.