Words Have Power
Words Influences Lives!

Have you ever thought about the impact and influence that your words have?

Not only do they have the power to influence, affect and control others but your words can also reflect this power back to you as the reaction to our words often returns to us in a multiplied form!

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

Your ability to communicate through speech is one of the most obvious and significant attributes you have as a human. Thousands of words pour out of your mouth each and every day as you freely express your thoughts, opinions, judgements and beliefs oblivious to the effect and influence these words have on yourself and the people around you.

You rarely stop to think about what you are saying and you often hurt people inadvertently with the words you speak or the way you say them. And once the words leave your mouth, it is impossible to take them back, no matter how unintentional they may have been, words can sometimes cut a lot deeper than a sword.

Everything you say produces an effect in the world.

Whatever you say to someone else will produce some kind of an effect in that person.

That brings me to my final point. All of us have to choose our words and our gestures which will have long lasting effects on the people close to us. Therefore choose your words with care, wisdom and love because not only do words create images but words influence thoughts and feelings about yourself and others and can change you as an individual and the world around you by constantly creating something either positive or negative.

So before you open that crevice in your face called a mouth to speak, ask yourself:

Is what I am about to say going to uplift the hearer?
Will it inspire, motivate, and create forward momentum for them?
Will it dissolve fear and create safety and trust?
Will I create a positive or negative ripple effect by speaking out these words?

Let‘s be determined to unleash the influence and power of words for positive change to inspire, encourage, and motivate.

Words are Sound Energy - Use them wisely!

A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion. ~ John G. Lake
A hotheaded woman told John Wesley, "My talent is to speak my mind." Replied Mr. Wesley, "Woman, God wouldn't care a bit if you would bury that talent."
After all is said and done, more is said than done. ~ Unknown
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ~ Orson Rega Card
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. ~ Ira Gassen
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. ~ Jesus Christ (Matthew 12:36-38)
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~ Winston Churchill
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~ Spanish Proverb
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
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ~ Dr Samuel Johnson
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. ~ Garrison Keillor
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about things, small minds talk about other people. ~ Unknown
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ~ Robert Frost
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. ~ Pearl Strachan
Human conversation is largely an endless attempt to convince others that we are more assertive or clever or generous or successful than they might think if we did not carefully educate them. ~ John Ortberg
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. ~ George Sanders
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind - give it more thought. ~ Dennis Roth
If you think little of a person, you ought to say as little as you think. ~ Benjamin Franklin
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. ~ Earl Wilson
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~ Robert Southey
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. ~ Blaise Pascal
Language has three important uses - it expresses thought, conceals thought, and takes the place of thought. ~ Unknown
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. ~ Charles Spurgeon
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. ~ Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. ~ Colossians 4:6
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation. ~ Adi Shankaracharya (c. 650) Hindu reformer
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ~ Adlai Stevenson
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ~ Margaret Millar
Never miss a good chance to shut up. ~ Will Rogers
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~ Henry B. Adams
Of those who say nothing, few are silent. ~ Thomas Neiel
One half the troubles in this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. ~ Josh Billings
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~ Will Durant
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ Jesus Christ
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ~ William Penn
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is. ~ Publilius Syrus

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain
The flood of careless, unconsidered, cheap words is the greatest enemy of the profound word. ~ Stephen L. Talbott
The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone? ~ Ecclesiastes 6:11
The most precious things in speech are the pauses. ~ Sir Ralph Richardson
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Dorothy Nevill
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. ~ Ann Landers
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The words we say will teach if we practice what we preach. ~ Unknown
There are two types who say very little: the quiet type and the gabby type. ~ Unknown
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ~ Rebecca West
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ~ William Butler Yeats
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ Ben Jonson
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ~ Abigail Adams
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. ~ Buddha
When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. ~ Unknown
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. ~ Arabian Proverb
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. ~ D.J. Kaufman
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ~ Plato
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ~ Jean Kerr
Words are plentiful; deeds are precious. ~ Lech Walesa
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.