Our Words Quotes
178 quotes by 154 authors
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience…
— Niels Bohr
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Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the…
— Marlo Morgan
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We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
— Stephen Covey
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The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are…
— Eknath Easwaran
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We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.
— Sergey Kirov
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The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor,…
— Pope Paul VI
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to…
— William J. Clinton
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Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly,…
— Don King
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.
— C. J. Mahaney
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Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words…
— C. J. Mahaney
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My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many…
— Charles Spurgeon
Who Wrote These Our Words Quotes
154 authors contributed a total of 178 Our Words Quotes, led by these top contributors: