Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. — Arthur Bryant
The shorter and the plainer the better. — Beatrix Potter
It takes few words to tell the truth. — Chief Joseph
A short saying often contains much wisdom. — Sophocles
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. — William Faulkner
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. — Josh Billings
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings. — Diane Ackerman
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. — Pythagoras
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. — Wilson Follett
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. — Pythagoras
The fewer the words, the better the prayer. — Martin Luther
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
Kind Words Quotes
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. — Leo Buscaglia
When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence. — Nouman Ali Khan
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. — Blaise Pascal
Life is short. Spend it with people who make you laugh and feel loved.
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. — Angela Merici
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. — Al Capone
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. — Ellen G. White
Life is too short to silence your personality.
Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!! — Roman Reigns
Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? — Amy Carmichael
You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world! — Anne Frank
Small Words Quotes
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. — Muhammad Ali
A small act is worth a million thoughts. — Ai Weiwei
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. — Therese of Lisieux
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with — Plato
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. — Anita Roddick
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. — Sylvia Plath
Life is very short. If people aren't decent, kind, accountable, responsible, or responsive, man up and get rid of them.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. — George Sand
Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind. — Mary Kay Ash
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter. — Zhuangzi
I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place. — Nellie L. McClung
Few Words Quotes
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Life is short. To just "Do things" is insane. Live with a purpose. Live for a reason.
At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE. — Assata Shakur
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life. — Zig Ziglar
People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done. — Mike Tomlin
No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Very few people in business keep their word. When you find them, go into business with them. — Patrick Bet-David
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. — Leslie Stephen
The truth is few of verbs but the lie long of words. — Icelandic Proverbs
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. — Tom Brokaw
Simple Words Quotes
Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. — Shams Tabrizi
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. — Peter Brook
There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is. — Jane Frances de Chantal
If things were simple, word would have gotten around. — Jacques Derrida
Life is too short to be anything but happy.
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. — Yehudi Menuhin
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired. — Lucille Clifton
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words — Dante Alighieri
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — Jack Kerouac
Writing Short Quotes
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. — Raymond Carver
I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing. — Yoweri Museveni
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe
Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don't even deserve to be an issue in your life.
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. — Ernest Hemingway
it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. — Ernest Hemingway
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. — V. S. Pritchett
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. — Mark Twain
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices. — Amos Oz
Long Words Quotes
If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin
Good words do not last long unless they amount to something. — Chief Joseph
Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life too short to think small
Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step. — Joni Eareckson Tada
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. — George Orwell
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth. — Gerald Massey
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
How come abbreviated is such a long word? — Steven Wright
The sweetness of food doesn’t last long, but the sweetness of good words do. — Thai Proverbs
You wouldn't go very long without eating food; don't let your spirit starve either. Feed on the Word of God every day. — Victoria Osteen
Short And Sweet Quotes
The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. — Roy Wilkins
The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. — Elinor Wylie
I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. — Matt Groening
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. — George Edward Moore
I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you. — Dierks Bentley
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. — Amelia Barr
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. — Audre Lorde
Because life is short but sweet for certain — Dave Matthews
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond. — Umberto Eco
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
Strong Words Quotes
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic. — Constance Markievicz
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. — Amelia Earhart
The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language. — Kim Jong Il
Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated. — John Bevere
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love. — Amy Carmichael
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. — Euripides
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. — Mark Twain
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy
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