Sometimes Standing Alone Quotes

#1. Sometimes standing alone makes you stronger than hiding in a group. When you choose to stand when those close to you are sitting down, it speaks volumes about your integrity and character. It's when those who stand alone come together that the opposite is true.

Lori Goodwin

#2. 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

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

Suzy Kassem

#4. When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

Tori Amos

#5. I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

Sarah Silverman

#6. The only person standing between your dreams and your success is none but YOU.. so all you need is to push YOURSELF.. Towards your goals.. to make it happen.

Vikrmn

#7. It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Gloria Allred

#8. It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.

Laozi

#12. The worst is being alone and not having someone with whom I can share life, someone who sees the world from the same narrow ledge I'm standing on and who understands without always having to be explained to.

Nancy Bond

#13. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

Sondre Lerche

#14. Loneliness doesn't come from being alone, but from being surrounded by people who can't understand you. A deep feeling of isolation comes when you realize that even the person standing right next to you is unreachable.

Anonymous

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

Suzy Kassem

#16. Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That's why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

Kiese Laymon

#17. Facing an enemy on the battlefield took courage, but you had your friends beside you. Standing alone against your friends, that was a different kind of courage.

Joe Abercrombie

#18. The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#20. People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. . . . that tense expectation, that proud state of standing alone without
teachings and without teachers, that supple willingness to listen to the
divine voice in his own heart, had slowly become a memory. . .

Hermann Hesse

#22. As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave ... walking the plank ... willingly ... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

Morrissey

#23. What can be quieter than standing alone in a crowd of strangers?

Keri Arthur

#24. You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

K.d. Lang

#25. everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay.

AVA.

#26. You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).

Yasmin Mogahed

#27. I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.

Alex Honnold

#28. I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.

Delia Ephron

#29. My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

Carson McCullers

#31. 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

#32. This was what was wonderful, standing alone in the big, soft night rewriting the past to make myself miss what had never been. Now that it was over, I could turn the past into anything I wanted.

Susanna Kaysen

#33. The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.

Judith Viorst

#34. Very few people stutter when they are standing alone in a room speaking to themselves, so how much did Ted's blindness free him from reacting to the perceptions of others?

Katherine Preston

#35. I'm sorry if you've ever felt alone even once standing beside me.

Bethany-Kris

#36. Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

Jimmy Carter

#37. Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach.

Ron Brackin

#38. Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone ... Alone and lonely have the same root.

Nora Roberts