Quotes About Standing Up For Truth

#1. The price for standing up for Truth, no matter how severe, will always be less than the price our souls will be penalized for not speaking up for our conscience. There is no greater crime in the universe than silencing your conscience.

Suzy Kassem

#2. Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Cornel West

#3. Of one inalienable truth I am certain: together, standing shoulder to shoulder, women are the greatest force of nature. I also know that when we cease to dilute our power in the name of politics, religion, and male attention, we will be introduced to the best version of collective self.

Vivek Wadhwa

#4. Life is flowing like a river while you are standing on the bank and busy with everyday life.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Criss Jami

#6. Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. If I flew for you, you would still be standing.

Heather Nova

#9. You can be non-judgmental, but you don't want to be non-discerning because, remember, the force of evolution is the conversation, you know: two truths standing up to each other in conversation, and the best truth emerges, and the best truth prevails.

James Redfield

#10. Some battles aren't fought with fists, some are fought by just standing up and facing it, facing the truth, learning that what others have done to you doesn't have to make you who are you. Only you can do that - you have the power to say "enough" and walk away, truly walk away.

Marie Hall

#11. "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

Luther Standing Bear

#12. In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Charles Baxter

#13. I want to stand on the truth that God has designed us to stand, and that the opportunity to stand is the opportunity to live exuberantly and gloriously.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.

Truth Devour

#15. Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path.

Rajneesh

#16. Man's most important achievement is not about standing up and start walking but, standing up to speak the truth.

Sukant Ratnakar

#17. Stand up for what is right against the wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#18. Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.

Nikki Rowe

#19. God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.

King Hussein I

#20. This thing I am feeling, I'm almost certain, is the closest I'll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

Raquel Cepeda

#21. Be yourself & stand out because that's what makes you different.

Truth Hurts

#22. How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?

Sara Marcus

#23. Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

Bennie Thompson

#24. The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

George McGovern

#25. This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Paul Tillich

#26. You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#27. Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.

Suzy Kassem

#28. Truth to tell, I'm right proud of Glory. She's standing up for what she believes is right. All of us should lead our children to do that, don't you know?

Augusta Scattergood

#29. It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

Dianna Hardy

#30. Stand up for Truth, even if you stand alone.

Suzy Kassem

#31. Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.

Suzy Kassem

#32. I want to stand on the foundation of ethics and morals when the world around me would assault that foundation with all of its collective might, and in the standing I want to stand on the truth that that foundation will stand long after everything that has assailed it has itself has ceased to stand.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. That bitter hour cannot be described: in truth, the waters came into my soul; I sank in deep mire: I felt no standing; I came into deep waters; the floods overflowed me.

Charlotte Bronte

#34. Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own.

Rachel Hartman

#35. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

Anna Freeman

#36. If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#37. Unk, standing at a porthole, wept quietly. He was weeping for love, for family, for friendship, for truth, for civilization. The things he wept for were all abstractions, since his memory could furnish few faces or artifacts with which his imagination might fashion a passion play.

Kurt Vonnegut

#38. O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

Robinson Jeffers

#39. True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#40. When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love.

Debasish Mridha

#41. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Francis Bacon

#42. In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.

Madelaine Standing

#43. I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.

Sophie Calle

#44. This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

James Freeman Clarke

#45. When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Amber Frey

#46. If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

Jeff Cooper

#47. The truth is, you can only give a person so much time to realize what's standing right in front of them. You can only let a person chase you for so long before you realize that maybe, just maybe, they never intended to catch you at all.

Mandy Hale

#48. As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

Parker Palmer

#49. It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.

Denny Taylor

#50. Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Luther Standing Bear

#51. [Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#52. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.

Sunday Adelaja

#53. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#54. Stand up for what is just against the unjust.

Suzy Kassem

#55. The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

Leymah Gbowee

#56. By standing alone,
you prove your courage.
By standing with others,
you prove your love.
By standing with truth,
you prove your virtue.
By standing with God,
you prove your faith.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#57. When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#58. Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.

Suzy Kassem

#59. In truth, I had not yet learned how to hate anyone but my parents. I was actually just standing there in love. I was not even really standing; if she had walked away suddenly, I would have fallen.

Miranda July

#60. You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

George Harrison