Top 33 Quotes About Courage To Stand Up For What's Right
#1. 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
#3. In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
Sam Llewellyn
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I'm sick of hearing it. I don't think it's right to stand by while innocent people are being tortured. I feel like that's how most horrible things continue to happen. It's because other people don't step in to stop it.
Kris Noel
#7. He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. 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
#9. President Eisenhower, like many Americans, is a very fervent believer in a very vague religion.
Kevin M. Kruse
#10. It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
Benazir Bhutto
#11. 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
#12. Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
#13. What is morality, she asked.
Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.
Ayn Rand
#14. I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.
George Washington
#15. Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.
N.D. Wilson
#17. I believe we have a deficit of moral courage in the United States Congress. We have many learned individuals who know what is right but have not the courage to stand against the moral corruption that is now attempting to undermine our republic.
Tom A. Coburn
#18. I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop,
Imran Khan
#19. Are you guys seriously messing around with real weapons?" she exclaimed. "It's like you want Darwin Awards!"
Tom flushed, and set his gun back on its hook. "It's not like we were going to start a dynastic war or something."
"Yeah," Vik said guiltily, returning his own weapon.
S.J. Kincaid
#20. 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
#21. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
C.S. Lewis
#22. It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard
#23. I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.
Dave Dravecky
#24. I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
Nancy Keenan
#25. I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.
Ann M. Dibb
#27. I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn't an easy thing but it's the right thing to do; be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
Roy Bennett
#28. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain.. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
Thomas S. Monson
#29. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
#30. If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!
Rob McClure
#31. Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
Carroll Shelby
#32. A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.
Holly Lisle
#33. I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the soldiers and bullets that I hid from in Asmara. I would stand and fight them to keep Fili safe.
Abeba Habtu
