The Power of Words The power of words cannot be overstated. Words have the power to build and uplift, calm and teach, instill knowledge and inspire action. Words have the power to destroy and cause harm, agitate and annoy, criticize and condemn, and humiliate and lower in status. It has been hypothesized that the average person uses between 10,000 and 20,000 words in a single day of conversation. As a result, each day presents us with a number of possibilities to say something positive or negative; the choice is entirely ours. It is said that "sticks and stones may shatter my bones, but words will never damage me," which is an expression of a proverb. Whoever came up with this assertion did not have any facts right... They should have said, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always injure me..." for a while, a broken bone may heal over time, and the damage that cruel words can do may never be undone. Whoever has been the recipient of verbal abus...