Top 1200 Standing Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can

Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.

Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.

There is no such thing as 'separation of church and state.' Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.

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.

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

I don't shy away from standing up against the president or other people who I think are taking us in the wrong direction.

I have a track record of going out and talking to my constituents and then standing up and representing them. That's what people want.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

If you're thousands of feet up with just a thin piece of webbing that you're standing on, it's really a sensation of being at one with the air.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.

I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

In my church body, there is a ton of standing, sitting, and kneeling during worship. We're always on the move, kneeling for the confession of sins, bowing toward the processional cross, and always standing at the mention of the Triune God.

I think my main concern is because I worry about demagoguery. It`s real. You see the people standing up there and applauding.

I don't know if the art of stand-up will survive. Stand-up seems dated. Now you can do a mini-movie or a short with a beginning, middle, and end. A guy standing there seems a little old - especially when you can go on the Internet and see 'Funny or Die.'

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Unfortunately, instead of standing up to Iran, the Obama administration is giving in to the Iranians' bizarre tantrums and illogical arguments.

Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home.

Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.

I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.

I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged

We must reject the thought that evangelism is to be separated from the importance of standing against evil. We weren't saved just to escape this world and go to Heaven. Transformed people transform the culture while standing boldly against evil.

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

There is a choice, and it is a choice on life. I couldn't be more proud to be standing with Donald Trump, who's standing for the right to life. It's a principle that that you embrace.

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.

What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to demonstrate that we are standing up for those rules.

Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator.

The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.