57 Word Inspirational Quotes

In a world often inundated with noise and distractions, the power of words remains a steadfast beacon for inspiration and introspection. Whether it's a single phrase that resonates on a profound level or a longer passage that encapsulates your current journey, the right words can illuminate the path ahead. In this carefully curated collection, we present 57 of the most uplifting and thought-provoking inspirational quotes that will encourage you to reflect, dream, and take action. These quotes are not just mere sentences; they are whispers of wisdom and encouragement, each carrying the potential to transform your perspective and invigorate your spirit. Join us as we explore these timeless nuggets of insight that remind us of the beauty and strength found within words.

1. “A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. “The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!” - Evelyn Waugh

3. “Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.” - Douglas Adams

4. “Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live.” - Tabitha Robin

5. “One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love.So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it todescribe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In thesame breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in theirlives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?” - Alexandra Adornetto

6. “It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word” - William Gass

7. “If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in the darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.Where shall the word be found, where shall the wordResound? Not here, there is not enough silence” - T.S. Eliot

8. “The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.” - Wendell Berry

9. “The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of *knowing* Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.” - Brennan Manning

10. “A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it.” - Michael Richardson

11. “A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

12. “Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect” - Anne McCaffrey

13. “Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.” - Vera Nazarian

14. “Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream.So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words?Thought about it yet?Good.And now, think why.” - Vera Nazarian

15. “At the beginning was The Word. Today I see That in great quotes.” - Toba Beta

16. “The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word.” - Kedar Joshi

17. “The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.” - David Levithan

18. “The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely formed from a virgin, was of itself mortal and, like other bodies, liable to death. But the indwelling of the Word loosed it from this natural liability, so that corruption could not touch it. Thus is happened that two opposite marvels took place at once: the death of all was consummated in the Lord's body; yet, because the Word was in it, death and corruption were in the same act utterly abolished.” - St. Athanasius

19. “The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word.” - Sorin Cerin

20. “Between world and animal are fewer questions than between man and world. How many such questions are there in God's Word?” - Sorin Cerin

21. “tears,love,life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?” - Sorin Cerin

22. “Are we the wreck or the ship of God's Word?” - Sorin Cerin

23. “There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.” - Toba Beta

24. “A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.” - Lev S. Vygotsky

25. “and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi” - Ally Carter

26. “The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.” - Brion Gysin

27. “Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.” - Jonathan Price

28. “Every word you add dilutes the sentence.” - Miller Williams

29. “Bags!” - Terry Goodkind

30. “Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.” - Don Roff

31. “Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.” - Ray Charles

32. “With a changing key, you unlock the house wherethe snow of what’s silenced drifts.Just like the blood that bursts fromYour eye or mouth or ear,so your key changes.Changing your key changes the wordThat may drift with flakes.Just like the wind that rebuffs you,Clenched round your word is the snow.” - Paul Celan

33. “They don't directly listen to you.They just hear things within their minds that triggered by your words.” - Toba Beta

34. “From nowhere, a word appears: Mesozoic. He can see the word, he can hear the word, but he can't reach the word. He can't attach anything to it. This is happening too much lately, this dissolution of meaning, the entries on his cherished wordlists drifting off into space.” - Margaret Atwood

35. “The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).” - John Piper

36. “If I can't trust your word, I can't trust you.” - Osayi Osar-Emokpae

37. “Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.” - Samuel R. Delany

38. “Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.” - Dejan Stojanovic

39. “The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.” - Dejan Stojanovic

40. “If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.” - Dejan Stojanovic

41. “A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.” - Dejan Stojanovic

42. “Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not to overthink it.” - Baratunde R. Thurston

43. “Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.” - Francois Rabelais

44. “Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.” - Dejan Stojanovic

45. “A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.” - Dejan Stojanovic

46. “Can I really take God at his word?” - K. Howard Joslin

47. “Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.” - Rachel Simon

48. “He intentado, no se con que fortuna, la redacción de cuentos directos. No me atrevo a afirmar que son sencillos; no hay en la tierra, una sola página, una sola palabra, que lo sea, ya que todas postulan el universo, cuyo más notorio atributo es la complejidad.” - Jorge Luis Borges

49. “I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.” - Belinda Jeffrey

50. “A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.” - John Steinbeck

51. “Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

52. “He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.” - Matt Chandler

53. “These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.” - Stefanos Livos

54. “Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.” - prixie

55. “always say something! is either to yourself or to the world around!” - Donald c.Nwokedi

56. “When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

57. “I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.” - David Levithan