Speak Quotes

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

~ Lewis Carroll

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

~ Phaedrus

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

~ Nathan Lane

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

~ Michel De Montaigne

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

~ Sharad Pawar

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

~ Michael Franti

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

~ Vikram Seth

There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!

~ Alexandra Fuller

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.

~ Luke Richardson

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

~ Hillary Clinton

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

~ Cary Fukunaga

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

~ Mandy Moore

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

~ Marcel Carne

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.

~ Elaine Pagels

Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's positive, man - a dentist, a doctor. Just hang in there and never give up, and find out what is your talent. First you got to find your talent and just stick with your talent, and I guarantee you'll get there, man.

~ Juicy J

I can't be around someone who is negative because I am such a positive person. If you are mean, then we don't speak.

~ Trevor Jackson

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

~ David Cameron

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

~ Pep Guardiola

I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

~ Q-Tip

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

~ Otis Blackwell

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

~ Keira Knightley

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

~ Naomi Watts

I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.

~ Stephen Baldwin

On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

~ Pharrell Williams

The United States is in a time of transition. Courts have redefined marriage, and beliefs about human sexuality are changing. Will the right to dissent be protected? Will the right of Americans to speak and act in accord with what the United States had always believed about marriage - that it's a union of husband and wife - be tolerated?

~ Edwin Meese

When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'

~ George Takei

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

~ Maajid Nawaz

Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.

~ David Harewood

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

~ Arthur Balfour

Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

~ Ingrid Betancourt

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

~ Joseph Joubert

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

~ Spike Milligan

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

~ Jean Cocteau

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

~ Mark Spitz