Top 1200 Stand Up For What You Believe In Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.

It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. We must be willing to act in accordance with what we believe under all circumstances. It is of little value for us to believe one way if we behave contrary to that belief in our private actions or in our public performance.

I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

I was new to acting on a stage in a narrative as opposed to acting on a stage as a stand-up. And like everything else it's just like comfort level. The first time I did stand-up I was at a place called the B3 in New York on Third and Avenue B and I not only didn't take the mic out of the stand, but I clutched the stand of the entire time.

If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up. And if you stand up, you can fight for your dream once again. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

As sportspeople, we have a power we don't even know. If we get together and talk, things change. If we stand up, people stand up with us.

I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

We worry so much about what people think of us and so we often don't stand up for what we believe in. And some people literally give their life for what they believe in. As a Christian, that is something I really admire. I want to be a part of spreading that message.

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.

Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against people's opinion.

It's very rare that stand-up comics have kids, because once they do, they stop doing stand-up.

I've always been somebody who, I stand up for what I believe, and I say what I believe, and that has always worked for me. In Missouri, this is always going to be the case, people are just tired of folks saying what they think they are supposed to say or whatever.

The only negative about doing stand-up is that you're on the road by yourself. When you're on the road with comics we just crack each other up every night going, "Can you believe they're paying us to do this? They're crazy.

I can't stand to work out. I can't stand to do a sit up; you know, I can't stand to run.

Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge, prejudice, customs and habits. This means we are standing up in our individual place, not the universal perspective. This egoistic behavior makes it very difficult to see the overall picture. But buddhas and ancestors recommend that we first stand up in the appropriate place. Just stand up, be present in the Universe itself.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in.

I stand by what I believe in, I'm not afraid to speak up for what I think is right.

There's a real rebirth in the artistic community to stand up for what you believe in.

Do I believe God raises up authority? Do I believe he sets one up and puts one down?... I don't believe that just for Trump, I believe that had Hillary been in. I believe that for Obama.

Yeah, I mean, I did regular stand-up for a long time. And I did - I stopped doing stand-up when I worked on 'Ellen,' which was for five years. So when I went back to it, I found that, like, regular stand-up didn't really do it for me anymore. It almost felt insincere, like I wasn't saying anything I actually really wanted to say.

You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things.

I can stand up for what I believe in. I don't take the word 'rebel' in a negative connotation.

Don't give in to bullying or others making fun of people. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your friends. Be that one person who is genuinely good-hearted.

Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things you can say, "Can I yo-yo? Can I juggle?" Usually you have a pretty small window in which to get your answer. Stand-up is different. You can't do stand-up for one night and say, "Am I a funny stand-up comedian?" In two months or two years you'll start to realize it.

If you strongly believe something is wrong, you must speak up and stand by what you say.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I love that our country is one where you have the freedom to protest and to stand up for what you believe in and speak on it.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

My grandfather, my grandmother especially, I have a whole family of activists, they've always told me to stand up for what I believe in.

My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

Tell me what do you do when you've done all you can and it seems like you can't make it through? Well you just stand, stand, stand, don't you dare give up. Through the storm, through the rain, through the hurt , stand through the pain, hold on, be strong, God will step in and it won't be long.

If you believe you're right...stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

As Christians, it's our duty to stand up for what we believe - that's called testifying.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

All I can hope for is to use my voice for things that I think matter and to stand up for what I believe in.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.'

Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing people to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Create opportunities for people who live in poverty to elevate themselves out of poverty with a hand up, not a hand out. That's what being a Democrat is!

Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.