Madeleine Albright Quotes

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Models need to learn to speak up.

I don't believe in holding your tongue, especially if it's something you can directly benefit from or some people need to hear.

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.

It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'

It took me almost wanting to retire to realize that you need to ask for what you need. Everybody needs something different, but whatever it is you need, you need to ask for it and figure out how to get it.

For me, speaking my mind is a big part of my life, and I encourage other people to do that as well.

I believe in voicing out your opinions.

In life, if you stay quiet, you'll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing.

Years and years of therapy taught me to speak up because speaking up is what gets things done and gets your story and your voice heard.

My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.

I was raised by a strong mother who always taught me to speak up, I never had difficulty leaving an uncomfortable situation or cutting eye contact; people used to call me cold.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

I'm not a very assertive person.

You might be thinking that some people are just naturally good at speaking up, and others just aren't - game over. Not true. Speaking up is a skill that you have to learn like any other, whether it's speaking Spanish or doing calculus or changing a tire.

I don't like it necessarily when other people speak for me.

Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

It's become easier to speak up for myself.

Be not scared to use your voice.

By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

I always tell young women that they have a right to own their opinion, to speak up, and to make the first move.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.