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title: "7 Right Speech Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Right Speech quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Right Speech sayings and thoughts."
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> [Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/right-speech-comes-out-of-silence-and-right-silence-comes-out-of/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/you-have-no-right-to-go-before-a-public-without-an-adequate-technique/)

[Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/martha-graham-2832_adequate_you-have-no-right-to-go-before-a-public_89461.png)

> [I have the right to speech and expression and I won't leave that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/payal-rohatgi/i-have-the-right-to-speech-and-expression-and-i-won-t-leave-that/)

[Payal Rohatgi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/payal-rohatgi/)

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> [“It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-hegland/it-was-right-for-his-speech-to-be-a-failure-since-what-he-had-been/)

[Jean Hegland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-hegland/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f2/jean-hegland-17612_communication_it-was-right-for-his-speech-to-be-a-fail_1517279.png)

> [“Three parts of the Noble Eightfold Path fall within the training of sīla: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hart/three-parts-of-the-noble-eightfold-path-fall-within-the-training-of-s/)

[William Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hart/)

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> [The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-boorstein/the-prohibition-of-l-shon-hara-is-the-jewish-equivalent-of-the/)

[Sylvia Boorstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-boorstein/)

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> [“Giving up wrong deeds, exercise right action. Giving up wrong speech, exercise right speech. Giving up wrong thoughts, think good thoughts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh/giving-up-wrong-deeds-exercise-right-action-giving-up-wrong-speech/)

[Thích Nhất Hạnh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh/)

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