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People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Words are the voice of the heart.

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.

Trust is earned when actions meet words.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The wound of words is greater than the wound of swords.

— Arabic Proverb

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

— Horace

A man's word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

— Korean Proverb

A kind word is like a spring day.

— Russian Proverb

Words can inspire, and words can destroy. Choose yours well.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

— English Proverb

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Kind words are like honey — sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.

Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

— Lewis Carroll

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

— Emily Dickinson

Be silent, if you choose; but when necessary, speak — and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

— Japanese Proverb

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

— Mother Teresa

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's something like a thread of gold running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter.

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