Quotes About Knowing Where You Stand

#1. Class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

Neal Stephenson

#2. Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

Jean Chatzky

#3. When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Erich Fromm

#5. I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.

Lisa Genova

#6. Knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

Thucydides

#7. I have looked at my father many times and wondered how he could stand knowing he was my mother's ruin. He was too weak to leave her. Mother should have thrown him out and saved them both, like Sissy was saving the two of us.

Ayana Mathis

#8. You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it.

Dave Eggers

#10. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

George Orwell

#11. I stand in the presence
of the destroyed god:
a rubble of tendons,
knuckles and raw sinews.
Knowing that the work is mine
how can I love you?

Margaret Atwood

#12. Always try clothes on before you buy them. Stand, sit, walk and inspect yourself from all angles before you buy it so you don't regret it later. Knowing what it looks like on you is very important, as your body shape must suit the cut of the outfit.

Tena Desae

#13. What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!

Steve Grand

#14. You stand in front of an electric fence and whip your dick out to take a piss on it, it's pretty clear you're about to make a mistake. Other than that, you pretty much have no way of knowing.

Justin Halpern

#15. If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Warren G. Bennis

#16. Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Hayley Williams

#17. I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?

Gail Carriger

#18. So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

H.L. Mencken

#19. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

Barack Obama

#20. Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#21. Spiritual pain is when you can't stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can't let go.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Flannery O'Connor

#23. The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in ... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Sarah Dessen

#24. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Bobby Bowden

#25. Now, I don't know if you can appreciate this without actually knowing her, but getting Mrs. Stricker to laugh is like getting an octopus to stand up on two legs.

James Patterson

#26. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself - in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside.

Robin S. Sharma

#27. That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.

Jenny Slate

#28. I may not know why, but I do know why not and this is where I stand.

J.R. Rim

#29. I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

Moe Howard

#30. I don't want to ruin our friendship and what we have but I cannot for another minute stand in front of you without you knowing exactly how I feel. Because I can't see past you. You are everything to me.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#31. After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!

Carly Craig

#32. No one can understand my conflict who has not looked into the eyes of those he loves, knowing that he has no alternative but to take a dangerous stand that leaves them tormented.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#33. I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them.

Invader

#34. Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.

Bill Crawford

#35. I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

Ellen Goodman

#36. I don't stand behind the camera drooling. Knowing that, the models are more likely to open up and relax.

Ellen Von Unwerth

#37. A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

#38. It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

Sugata Mitra

#39. Take a thousand soldiers. Four hundred will stand in a fight but do nothing. Two hundred will run given the chance. Another hundred will get confused. That leaves three hundred you can count on. Your task in commanding that thousand is all down to knowing where to put that three hundred.

Steven Erikson

#40. I stand before you and with you - knowing what I see, you see, we see... together.

Patrena Miller

#41. I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.

David Oyelowo

#42. There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

Abraham Hicks