Top 72 Quotes About Speaking Your Truth
#1. Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.
Brett Dennen
#3. When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".
Ray McGovern
#4. Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice ourselves is to stop speaking and thinking and reading about it so much and to start watching and listening.
Frederick Buechner
#5. But then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice. Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said Polemarchus interposing. I
Plato
#6. And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story.
Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas ...
Rachel Vincent
#7. I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.
Mark Twain
#8. Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)
Susan Sontag
#9. The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.
Leymah Gbowee
#10. Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.
Mark Hart
#11. Nothing is more relieving than speaking truth in tough moments.
Saru Singhal
#12. When you start speaking the "TRUTH" it creates enemies out of Ignorance. But always learn to speak the truth, though, it should be a solid weapon to a positive progression.
Henry Johnson Jr
#13. It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth - to mouths like mine, at least.
Robert Browning
#14. Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them ... the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to
love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
Blaise Pascal
#15. It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.
Anthony Trollope
#16. The Western rhetoric of appeasement creates a self-reinforcing loop of mental and moral corruption. Speaking the truth now would mean confessing to many months of lies
Garry Kasparov
#17. I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty.
Bryant McGill
#18. One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
Cornel West
#20. When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.
Iyanla Vanzant
#22. The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.
Ann Goldstein
#23. It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.
Dianna Hardy
#24. Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.
Wayne W. Dyer
#25. In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
John Grisham
#26. Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Thomas Carlyle
#27. Strong in society, vocal about our beliefs." Her eyes were kind, but they held a no-nonsense look. "For you, that might mean speaking up for your faith, being the voice of truth for your cast.
Karen Kingsbury
#28. Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.
Molly Friedenfeld
#29. I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.
Behdad Sami
#30. Only by investing and speaking your
vision with passion can the truth, one
way or the other, finally penetrate the
reluctance of the world.
Soren Kierkegaard
#31. What do you want me to do, Peter?"
"Chuck the ball back to me if it runs out of the circle. Not obviously. Just exercise your devastating talent for keeping to the point and speaking the truth."
"That sounds easy."
"It is
for you. That's what I love you for."
Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers
#32. The price for standing up for Truth, no matter how severe, will always be less than the price our souls will be penalized for not speaking up for our conscience. There is no greater crime in the universe than silencing your conscience.
Suzy Kassem
#34. In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.
William Hazlitt
#35. When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
Victor Hugo
#36. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Patrick Henry
#37. I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
Armistead Maupin
#38. Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.
Ernest Holmes
#39. My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a
proof that I am speaking the truth.
Socrates
#40. Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.
Toni Sorenson
#41. You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now.
Shirley Marr
#42. It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
Christine Lagarde
#43. Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
Joan Didion
#44. Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.
Donald Trump
#45. Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
William Kingdon Clifford
#46. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. We've all become so conscious of how we'll be perceived and so frightened to
possibly offend someone that we've filtered ourselves to what borders on dishonesty. Sure, as my wife constantly reminds me, you don't have to say everything you think; but when did speaking plainly become such a sin?
Aaron Blaylock
#48. If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey
#49. Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking
only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.
Daniel Alarcon
#50. My Heart May Change Over Time (Boyhood->Manhood->Old) But The Love It Carries, Will Remain The Same ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#51. Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#52. The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
Tara Brach
#53. It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.
Max Barry
#54. I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.
Henry Adams
#55. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.
B.G. Bowers
#56. There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#57. I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.
Mason Cooley
#58. A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Saul Bellow
#59. The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
Susan Sontag
#60. The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.
Monika Ramzy
#61. Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus
#62. Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.
Deb Baker
#63. He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
Anthony Trollope
#64. Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all times.
Bryant McGill
#65. I'd like people to like me. I think most of my friends like me! I'm real and I get in trouble for speaking my mind. I will definitely tell you the truth because I have to. I get in trouble that way.
Keith Michael
#66. You live lies," Pattern said. "It gives you strength. But the truth . . . Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan. I know this somehow.
Brandon Sanderson
#67. When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.
Ray Blanton
#68. Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.
Richard Carlson
#69. Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.
Dennis Perrin
#70. Speaking the truth is the main attribute of a pure hearted person.
Eraldo Banovac
#71. Saying of the Prophet
Truth
Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.
Idries Shah
#72. Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
Sidney Sheldon
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