Speak Your Truth Quotes

“What are you waiting for? An engraved invitation?”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“Don't let your fear of criticism suffocate your leadership potential. Once you begin to speak your truth, you will discover the people who have been waiting for someone exactly like you. Until you speak up, all you need is the faith that they exist. And I promise you: they do.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“If you tap into your true story, and share that truth, it resonates with people.”
― Michelle Obama

“If you don't voice your concerns and speak your truth, people will assume that you'll accept disrespectful behavior.”
― Vanessa Ooms, Do It For You: How to Stop People-Pleasing and Find Peace

“Our playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around us! As we become liberated from our fears, we are free to experience life as it is meant to be! If we are to be free from oppression and control, we must take charge of our own lives and in our magnificence, stand up and speak our truth. In our doing, we let our light shine...
(Stella: She was kicked out of the Religion because she objected to her 16 Year old daughter being given in marriage to a 39 yr old polygamist man.)”
― Jenny Jessop Larson, From Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy

“The first most hateful thing in the world is the truth and the second is the person who spoke the truth.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Talk your talk, walk your walk, dance your dance, speak your truth, and be yourself.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Often the first poem is the hardest, the one caught by a lifetime of being smaller than you are, trapped by your ideas of what art is, what an artist is, immobilized by the judgments of teachers whose names you may never again remember. How did we come to forget that anything true is beautiful? How young were we then?”
― John Fox, Poetic Medicine

“My words emerge as a stallion standing firm even when none have the ability to ride them.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Experience, endure, learn, and keep on dancing with the souls and hearts of those around us through this theater we all call Life.
Go after ‘scary things' with your last breath. Face your demons. Speak your truth. Forgive.
Love deeply, travel lightly, live passionately, and don't forget to breathe.
Fall and surrender. Face your true self in the world's mirror — and in the end... let go...”
― Elena Levon