Speaking Up Quotes

I will begin to speak when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Silence is safer than speech.

People Really Do Respect Those who are Willing to Speak their Truth

In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew it, I might whisper it to my buddy and let him answer. I kept quiet.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

Your silence will not protect you.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

We have to remember that disagreeing with people is fine; it is dehumanizing people that is not, and when that happens, we have to be ready to speak up.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

One should never, ever remain silent for fear of complexity,

It's become easier to speak up for myself.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Sometimes, when life moves along, you're presented with situations where you find it necessary to speak because so many people either seem to be afraid to or, more sinister, are unwilling to face things and let things go and worry about their own situations.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.