Zainab Salbi Quotes

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.

One should say what he/she feels.

I hope being honest about my experiences and contextualizing them empowers young women to step into their truths, tell their own stories, and live visibly.

There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.

Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.