These universal language quotes will motivate you. Universal language may refer to a hypothetical or historical language spoken and understood by all or most of the world’s population.
Below you will find a collection of inspiring, happy, and encouraging universal language quotes, universal language sayings, and universal language proverbs.
Best Universal Language Quotes
- “Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.” ~ Judith Wright
- “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “Realistically, English is a universal language; it’s the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.” ~ Enrique Iglesias
- “Numbers constitute the only universal language.” ~ Nathanael West
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“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “Music is the universal language of mankind.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “What’s great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.” ~ David Krumholtz
- “Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.” ~ Guy Laliberte
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“Humor is a universal language.” ~ Joel Goodman
- “Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ~ Confucius
- “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation’s picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man’s only lasting monument.” ~ William Morris Hunt
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“Music is the universal language.” ~ Swizz Beatz
- “In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.” ~ Bianca Jagger
- “Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.” ~ Arthur Rothstein
- “I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.” ~ Cesar Millan
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“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.” ~ Frank Capra
- “Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.” ~ Octavio Paz
- “Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal ‘language’ but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.” ~ Judith Lynne Hanna
- “The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.” ~ Thomas Paine
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“I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.” ~ Ben Hogan
- “If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.” ~ Jerry Garcia
- “Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It’s a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.” ~ Suze Orman
- “Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.” ~ Jerry Garcia
- “Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we have in our culture. When we play, we give a gift of joy to another. Happy and joyous family times are a unifying force. They increase closeness and positive feelings. They increase loyalty to the family team. Everyone relaxes and feels more alive. Love just happens when you’re having fun together!” ~ Louise Hart
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“Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.” ~ Justin Bieber
- “For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it’s a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I’ve always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.” ~ John Lydon
- “You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language.” ~ Clint Smith
- “Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course, points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that’s why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that’s kind of the beauty of it.” ~ Scott Weiland
- “English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most powerful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.” ~ Richard Lederer
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“Music is the universal language … it brings people closer together.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald
- “Black Sabbath – one of the world’s universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi’s guitar sound.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that’s what it’s most successful at.” ~ Mary Mattingly
- “[Sigmund ] Freud did not understand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.” ~ Erich Fromm
- “It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.” ~ Thomston
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“The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.” ~ Brené Brown
- “Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing’s universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.” ~ Gabe Newell
- “My passion is to open people’s eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.” ~ David Doubilet
- “I can’t imagine my world without music. It’s the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.” ~ David Guetta
- “That old adage, that “music is a universal language”, is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.” ~ William Fitzsimmons
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“Music truly is the universal language.” ~ Herbie Hancock
- “Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.” ~ Lara Fabian
- “I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people’s lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.” ~ Chloe Rose Lattanzi
- “When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
- “Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it’s a universal language. You don’t have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.” ~ Paul Epworth
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“Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It’s a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.” ~ Daniel Tammet
- “It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.” ~ Harry S. Truman
- “On the one hand, there is no question that English – frequently bad English – has become the universal language of scholarship. It is clearly a tremendous handicap for people outside of the United States, Britain, and Australia and a few other countries because few of them are native speakers, but we demand that they present and publish in English.” ~ Henry Rosovsky
- “Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.” ~ Kathleen Raine
- “Math is my favorite subject. It’s the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.” ~ Dakota Blue Richards
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“Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.” ~ Nathanael West
- “Art is humanity’s most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization’s most profound works.” ~ Ernest L. Boyer
- “Music is a plane of wisdom because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.” ~ Sun Ra
- “The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavor to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.” ~ Erich Maria Remarque
- “I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.” ~ Anne Geddes
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“Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.” ~ Louis Chevrolet
- “The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “In these days of political, personal, and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it’s a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration, and goodwill.” ~ Robert Lawson Shaw
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“I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.” ~ Alicia Keys
- “Through radio, I look forward to the United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. (1926)” ~ Arthur E. Kennelly
- “How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?” “I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language,” Dan said. “Like ow. Or- you’re stepping on my foot.” “That’s universal?” “No, you’re stepping on my foot. Ow.” Amy moved.” ~ Judy Blundell
