Top 58 Courage To Stand Up Quotes
#1. The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#2. I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.
Richard Hatch
#3. It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.
Catherine Jane Fisher
#4. Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.
Kyle Schmalenberg
#5. When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.
Charles Coughlin
#6. Real men don't buy girls-they protect them. We're recruiting real men who have the courage to stand up against this issue.
Demi Moore
#7. t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs.
Debasish Mridha
#8. It is easy to conform, but it takes great courage to stand up for peace.
Debasish Mridha
#9. I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
Susana Martinez
#10. The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable.
Billy Graham
#11. You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.
Wesley Clark
#12. Nobody is going to come along and sprinkle magic fairy dust on you. If you want to change your life, you need to find the courage to stand up and fight.
Valerie Silveira
#13. We were all born with the courage to stand up to our fears. If not ... then we would have also been born with mouse holes to run into.
Timothy Pina
#14. I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
Dalia Mogahed
#15. Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.
Tommy Douglas
#16. If we have no idea what we believe in, we'll go along with anything. Truth takes courage. Courage to stand up for what we believe in. Not necessarily in a confrontational way, but in a gentle yet firm way. Like an oak tree, able to sway gently in the wind, but strongly rooted to the ground.
A.C. Ping
#17. You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.
Enzo Ferrari
#18. Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
Michael Mullen
#19. You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
Maya Angelou
#20. You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
Paul Robeson
#21. I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.
Jerry Hall
#22. I may not be able to fix what is wrong, but if I stand with someone who is suffering, it may give them the courage to stand up to what is wrong.
Karlyle Tomms
#23. Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. You will never develop courage if you don't stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.
Shannon L. Alder
#25. It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.
Ray Comfort
#26. When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#27. Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.
Carl Hiaasen
#28. You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'
Maya Angelou
#29. When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.
Ilchi Lee
#30. Life can be the worst bully in the world," Grandpa said and pointed a finger at Mathieu. "And you will stand up to that bully.
Francois Houle
#31. If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?
Suzy Kassem
#32. When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
Cornel West
#33. If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.
Derek Sivers
#34. It's scary to make friends, it's scarier to stand up for a friend, but it's scariest to not be a friend for fear will be your only company.
Justine Hail
#35. It takes much courage and bravery to stand up to your enemies and say I love you and I forgive you.
Debasish Mridha
#36. You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free.
Nikki Rowe
#37. We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
Veronica Roth
#38. When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Gaining the courage and confidence to stand up for what you believe in is not always easy, but it's fully within your reach.
Marianne Williamson
#39. To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be able to stand up and shake off the fetters of an outlived civilization, to dare
where others lack the courage
to plunge again into the elemental.
Thomas Mann
#40. People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.
Natalie Cole
#41. Few of us, however, have Alice's courage, at the end of the book, to stand up (literally)for our convictions and refuse to hold our tongue.
Alberto Manguel
#42. There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Geraldine Brooks
#43. What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
Jim DeMint
#44. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?
Katie McGarry
#46. I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people [ ... ] That's what courage is. Not ... hurting people for no reason. - Al
Veronica Roth
#47. I don't want you to be a people-pleaser; you need to stand up for what you want and what you believe.
Amy Reece
#48. It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
#49. The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
Karen White
#50. I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. It is a beautiful thought.
Veronica Roth
#51. The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"
David B. Haight
#52. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling
#53. It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.
Richard Ebeling
#54. There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
Ben Carson
#55. Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.
Robert M. Hensel
#56. When life throws you down, have the courage to stand back up and dust yourself off.
Aaron Morgan
#57. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Richard Branson
#58. A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
