Top 100 Stand Up For Quotes
#1. I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.
Malcolm Turnbull
#2. A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.
Jean M. Auel
#3. Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#4. I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#5. The Philippines just need 100 youth to stand up for their country
F. Sionil Jose
#6. I'm going to stand up for what [Donald Trump] says and does that is threatening to Americans, to the lives of Americans, the rights of Americans.
Hillary Clinton
#8. Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.
Alexandra Katehakis
#9. Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years of age or younger. The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights.
Bernie Sanders
#10. Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.
Suzy Kassem
#11. I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.
Angie Harmon
#12. Stand up for what you think is right. That might be very different from what I am saying today, but you are allowed to differ from me just as I am allowed to differ from you. That is part of our strength as a country that we can differ from each other.
John Yu
#13. we need to stand up for our own principles as liberals. Specifically, we need to say to offended Western Muslims (and their liberal supporters) that it is not we who must accommodate their beliefs and sensitivities. Rather, it is they who must learn to live with our commitment to free speech.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#14. Just stand up for your principals and be loyal to your friends and family.
Nick Offerman
#15. Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
Elayne Boosler
#16. I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#17. You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.
Debra L. Lee
#18. Would an evil man show this much concern for me when I'm upset? Stand up for me? Rescue me in the middle of a concert? That's who you are now. Not the man who almost killed Colin Westwood. But one who's sorry for what he did and wants to move on with his life.
Jessica Lauryn
#20. I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.
Phoebe Snow
#21. It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about our state.
Clementa C. Pinckney
#22. We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.
S. E. Cupp
#23. Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.
Julie Andrews
#24. The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren't funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren't accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more.
Bob Saget
#25. We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.
Susan Polis Schutz
#26. I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. It is a beautiful thought.
Veronica Roth
#27. Freedom doesn't come with age. It doesn't magically appear when you're a legal adult. It comes when you stand up for what you believe in.
Krista Ritchie
#28. One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
Jennifer Donnelly
#29. As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.
John Barrasso
#30. You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.
David Dunn
#31. To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.
Sophie Turner
#33. We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
Tabatha Coffey
#34. 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
#35. When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves.
Louise Hay
#36. You can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too.
Sonny Barger
#37. Life got in the way
two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all the muck that bogs us down when we don't have the balls to stand up for ourselves
but I had never lost my interest in books.
Paul Auster
#39. American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for their gender or sexuality, then no one will stand up for them.
Reza Aslan
#40. If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.
Glenn Reynolds
#41. The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.
Jason Collins
#42. Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.
Sharon Salzberg
#43. If you believe in nothing and stand up for nothing, you'll become and achieve nothing.
Gosho Aoyama
#45. It is easy to conform, but it takes great courage to stand up for peace.
Debasish Mridha
#46. I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
Loretta Lynn
#48. To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.
Flora Jessop
#49. I don't have any siblings, but I have best friends that I have known since kindergarten that I'm protective of. If they call me and tell me someone was mean to them at school - I want to go to school and be mean to that person and try to stand up for them.
Miranda Cosgrove
#50. Stephen Baldwin believes that now we're in a particular time in the world's history where it is time that people stand up for Jesus. That people get more aggressive and radical how they communicate with our culture about Jesus.
Stephen Baldwin
#51. Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
Adriana Trigiani
#52. We stand up for the farmers
Who can't keep enough to eat
We walk out for the workers
Who don't know the taste of meat
We run forward for the children
With no shoes upon their feet
We will march this kingdom down
We will break the golden crown
Shannon Hale
#53. Sometimes you've gotta stand up for yourself, even when you know you ain't got a chance.
Sara King
#54. My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.
Albert Schweitzer
#55. Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.
Amit Ray
#56. The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. We've been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it.
N. T. Wright
#57. The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
Ziggy Marley
#58. But you stand up for me. You tell me the truth. You make me laugh, and you make me want. You let me be and feel who I am. And you fell in love with me even when you didn't want to.
Nora Roberts
#59. Sometimes it's better to let people handle their own problems. Sometimes just believing in someone is the best way to stand up for them.
Hisaya Nakajo
#60. Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.
Shaun Wright-Phillips
#61. It is an honorable charge to shine the light
and stand up for what is true, just, and right.
Guardians of Light know innately that whenever we insert honor, love, and truth into any experience, we shall always remove pain.
Molly Friedenfeld
#62. Never try to hide the real you. Be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Question what other people tell you, think things though. Never regret your mistakes as there's a reason for everything.Grudges are toxic and heavy to bear. Let them go, learn from everything and continue to grow.
Karen Gibbs
#63. It's good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume," she qualified, "but know. To be with someone, who even when you don't think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I'm not going to look around the corner for what's next.
Nora Roberts
#64. I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta.
Joseph Crowley
#65. As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal
#66. It's important to stand up for your work, otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#67. 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
#68. I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
Ariana Grande
#69. If you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?
Gloria Steinem
#70. Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Bob Marley
#71. I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.
America Ferrera
#72. When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.
Louis Bacon
#73. You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'
Maya Angelou
#74. Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert Kennedy
#75. If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
Olivia Munn
#76. It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights
even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.
John F. Kennedy
#77. You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that ... you're nothing.
Aaron Russo
#78. I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the truth. I gotta stand up for what's right. Every great person and true soldier has a great story to tell and this is a part of my story.
Trae Tha Truth
#79. Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#80. Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.
Kyle Schmalenberg
#81. My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.
Chuck D
#82. Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.
Jerry Spinelli
#83. You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
W. Kamau Bell
#84. I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
Laura Mennell
#85. Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
Margaret Keane
#86. The punk credo was to stand up for your own beliefs and tastes, not bow down to yet another new set of rules. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, indeed.
Billy Idol
#87. And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.
Pete Wentz
#88. All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.
Michael Moore
#89. I'm proud of you, son," he said. "I guess it has finally sunk in that it's important to stand up for yourself in this world."
Rocky shook his head. "It's more important to stand up for someone who can't stand up for herself," he had answered.
Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.
Karen Mueller Coombs
#90. The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
Bonnie Raitt
#91. God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition.
Jim George
#92. My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.
Guy Kawasaki
#93. We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.
Jeremy Corbyn
#94. It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.
Lily Collins
#95. I saw so many kids who were bullied. I always wanted to stand up for them, but I couldn't - I was a coward. So when I got old enough, I said I'm not going to be a coward anymore.
Gerard Way
#96. Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?
Tasha Alexander
#97. It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.
Catherine Jane Fisher
#98. Stand up for those who can't yet. Give them support and strength.
Demi Lovato
#99. it's about doing what you can, whenever you can, to stand up for what you believe. You fight and you never, ever give up. That's what makes a man.
Craig Schaefer
#100. It's important to be involved and stand up for what you believe in.
Ione Skye
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