“155. Good words are worth much, and cost little.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”
Variant: Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Variant: Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Philip Kotler (1931) American marketing author, consultant and professor
Source: Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know, 2011, p. 127; Quote in the context of new product development.
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster
Misquoted in Forbes (6 October 1986), actually attributed to humorist Professor Irwin Corey (1953) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/03/kind-gun/ <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
“You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.”
Kinky Friedman (1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“It costs too much to worship God in public.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
Context: Another thing is the magnificence of the churches. The church depends absolutely upon the rich. Poor people feel out of place in such magnificent buildings. They drop into the nearest seat; like poor relations, they sit on the extreme edge of the chair. At the table of Christ they are below the salt. They are constantly humiliated. When subscriptions are asked for they feel ashamed to have their mite compared with the thousands given by the millionaire. The pennies feel ashamed to mingle with the silver in the contribution plate. The result is that most of them avoid the church. It costs too much to worship God in public. Good clothes are necessary, fashionably cut.