Top 1200 Stand Your Ground Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

It is extremely difficult to stand up for principles when many of your friends are automatically liberal or just do not care.

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

If your character is written well and is meaty enough, even two scenes has the potential to stand out.

I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.

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.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.

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.

A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

I have realised taking a stand is tough, but what's tougher is maintaining it and letting go of all those who doubt your intent.

For any American who is worried about this country, who feels our core values slipping away, who believes something has to be done to change the direction of our nation before all is lost - the NRA is your refuge. It is your place to stand and fight with Americans just like you, for all that is good and right.

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.

The best comedy you can ever have is when you're in the pub with your mates. You can never beat that. That's what I try to recreate in stand-up.

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

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

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

You have to learn to stand on your own two feet without a father figure around. You have to set an example.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

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

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress.

It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something that I'll back up.

I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

I heard oysters are an aphrodisiac, which I can't stand, but I think anything you eat with your hands is cute. I don't know.

It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

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

The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.

Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.

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.

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.

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

New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.

Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

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

I think you just have to be comfortable in your own skin, and when I do stand-up or the show I'm in a really good mood.

Your reputation doesn't stand for anything. You have to come and try to get up and show you're capable of doing the job.

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

Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

To be a successful Viner, you have to find your own style and be consistent. That will help you stand out from the rest.

Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to travel around the world and no matter where I am, or who I'm with, connect with other young people, and I can have an instant dialogue and an instant relationship based on the fact that we skateboard, and when I'm doing appearances and demos, that's not lost on me.

I'm not a political person. I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward.

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

The people you can't stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier, and more successful.

Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.