Top 100 Quotes About Stand For Something
#1. Take a stand; go for the right choice. Don't just sit for anything; stand for something. Be specific because sometimes, when the meaning is not clear, there us absolutely no meaning!
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive
Bhikkhu Bodhi
#3. But they keep saving me because they know I stand for something. They're just not sure what yet.
-The Pagoda
A.S. King
#4. Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Jodie Foster
#5. We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all.
James Michael Pratt
#6. It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.
Jerry Greenfield
#7. If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
Maurice Saatchi
#8. You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.
Anthony Carmona
#9. If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.
Tinie Tempah
#10. If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.
William Bernbach
#11. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. There is no more a 'political middle' than there is a family in America with 2.3 children. People with opinions take sides. Contrary to what you've heard, it's actually more important
to stand for something than it is for everybody to 'just get along'.
Ann Coulter
#13. The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
Don Shula
#14. What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
Grover Cleveland
#15. We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
Ronald Reagan
#16. In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.
Nicky Gumbel
#17. When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.
Jason Fried
#18. Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
Orison Swett Marden
#19. You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
Angelique Kidjo
#20. Stand for something or fall for nothing, if you are neutral you'll be pushed anywhere.
James Patterson
#21. There are no extra days. There are no meaningless days. This very day is the day that you can make a choice to stand for something higher and be the person you know in your heart you have always wanted to be.
Robin S. Sharma
#22. Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall
#23. In any moment of time, you have three paths to choose from. You stand for something, you stand against something, or you drop both, and walk with your inner truth.
Roshan Sharma
#24. You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
Aaron Tippin
#26. I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to that place of success in a positive light. We should take a stance and stand for something and use that platform for positivity.
Misty Copeland
#27. If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.
Ginger Rogers
#28. Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.
Joan D. Chittister
#29. The American people," Small added, "must understand that as soon as America doesn't stand for something in the world, there is going to be a tremendous erosion of freedom.
Jon Meacham
#30. If we would individually and collectively resolve to stand for something, to lift our voices for truth and goodness and offer our supplications to our Eternal Father, those supplications would be heard, and the result would be remarkable.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#31. I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
Blake Shelton
#32. In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton Friedman belief that a company's sole responsibility is to the shareholders.
Srikumar Rao
#33. If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.
Mel Thompson
#34. If you dont stand for something you fall for everything.
Malcolm X
#35. The sky is falling, the wind is calling
Stand for something, or die in the morning
Kendrick Lamar
#36. Online affiliation with good causes is good netiquette. Stand for something!
David Chiles
#37. Art needs to stand for something.
Ai Weiwei
#38. People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.
Mark Ryden
#39. Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is not a good indication to pursue your dreams.
Euginia Herlihy
#40. Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
Angela Davis
#41. Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
Howard Schultz
#42. Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
Marian Wright Edelman
#43. It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
Caroline Kennedy
#44. The best way to be missed when you're gone,
Is to stand for something when you're here
Seth Godin
#45. I stand for something. I stand for light. Even when I sleep!
Matthew Maher
#46. In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#47. Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
Lane Kirkland
#48. Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.
Rand Paul
#49. It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.
Lauren Bush
#50. The job of the brand is to make that name
and that logo stand for something. To live its founding principles each day. To stay true.
David Hieatt
#51. Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
Howard Cosell
#52. If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
Bonnie Hunt
#54. Faith should mean something. Gods . . . should stand for something, not chop and change with every breeze that blows. Gods should be worshipped for the truths they represent, not what party favours they might dispense.-Razor Eddie the Punk God of the Straight Razor
Simon R. Green
#55. I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten
Joshua Becker
#56. If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?
Miranda Lambert
#57. The problem often is that aspiring brands wish to be universally loved. Unfortunately, universal love is neither achievable nor desirable. Instead, great brands are loved by some and hated by others because they actually stand for something.
Nirmalya Kumar
#58. The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.
Russ Feingold
#59. If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Peter Marshall
#60. The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose ... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#61. If we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.
Irene Dunne
#62. Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden
#63. When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it's really bad, walk briskly or walk backward, splash some water on your face. Sleepiness is something we can respond to creatively. When
Jack Kornfield
#64. A real apology cost something, because you had to stand there like an idiot and say it out loud for the world to hear - I'M SORRY. And the world, as always, would respond with a resounding, 'Yes. Yes, you are.
David Arnold
#65. I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am an actor, but I've had a very fortunate foray into comedy, and it seems to have become a bit of a strength, and you can't complain when you become known for something.
Darren Boyd
#66. When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.
Margo MacDonald
#67. Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.
Carroll Shelby
#68. I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.
Betty Who
#69. 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
#70. I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?
H.J. Lawson
#71. Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"
Richardson Wright
#72. The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.
Jim Stanford
#73. The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.
Colin Hay
#74. When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton
#75. When she realizes that they are about to fall, she summons the strength to stand on her own two feet. Because that is what women like Britt-Marie do. They find the strength when they have to do something for others.
Fredrik Backman
#76. Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you do not stand strong, people will pity you, and then you lose something adults call dignity. Never accept pity. No one on earth is better than anyone else.
John J. Siefring
#77. The Asia had sixty-four heavy guns. For weeks it roamed the waters of New York Harbor, its weapons pointed at the city, looking something like an Imperial Destroyer from Star Wars. To stand
Jeff Wilser
#78. I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would."
"Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.
Richelle Mead
#79. Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.
Alicia Keys
#80. Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth," I answered honestly. "Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it.
Haruki Murakami
#81. The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.
Vivienne Westwood
#82. For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look.
Johnny Depp
#83. If I have learned anything over this last year it's that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn't work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.
T.S. Krupa
#84. Do not stand still for injustice. If you know something isn't right, find your strength and stand against it.
Kristen Ashley
#85. But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in.
Anne Perry
#86. Just be yourself, be confident. Try and stand out - but in a good way. Stand out for being yourself other then wearing like a chicken suit or something ...
Perrie Edwards
#87. When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.
Natasha Friend
#88. When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.
Margaret Thatcher
#89. What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
Eileen Caddy
#90. Whatever you and your team decide your new brand will stand for, deliver on that promise. That's the only way you'll ever control your brand. And beware: brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will.
Richard Branson
#91. I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.
Christina Aguilera
#92. Most women have only to lay eyes on you to want to be doing something for you so badly they can't stand it ... You're always so timid and yet you're funny ... Sometimes you get terribly lonesome and depressed, but that only makes a woman's heart itch all the more for you.
Osamu Dazai
#93. For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume ... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.
Andrea Bocelli
#94. By itself," he said, "pain is not always enough. There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death. But for everyone there is something unendurable - something that cannot be contemplated.
George Orwell
#95. It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
Vince Lombardi
#96. One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.
George MacDonald
#97. You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
Bjork
#98. The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
George Oppen
#99. I have faith in us as a family, and our friends. I think we will survive because we don't wish to harm anyone. If you ever need something to believe in, believe that to stand and fight for the people you love is the most honorable thing you can do with your life.
Jessica Fortunato
#100. Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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