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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Life, Everything, Learned

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

Good, Knowledge, Alone

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

Nature, Become, Lovely

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

End, Silence, Remember

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Failure, Mind

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda

Travel, Live, Care

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

Good, Speak, Read

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

Heart, Daily, Soul

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

Peace, Word, Thousand

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

Gratitude, Live, Forget

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Bad, Silence

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

Actions, Described, Easily

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Buddha

Good, Care, Whatever

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa

Give, Light, Darkness

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Love, Snow, Fire

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Help, Here

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Love, Kindness, Confidence

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain

Often, Action, Speaks

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Best, Philosophy, Makes

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

Human, Mean, Down

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Mean, Big, Talk

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

Life, Real, Person

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu

Good, Beautiful, Truthful

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

Few, Actions, Correspond

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

Evil, Soul, Themselves

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Language, Meanings

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston Churchill

Unsaid, Slaves, Masters

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen

Life, Change, Power

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark Twain

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill

Life, Diet, Often

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