Top 100 Take A Stand Sayings

#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

Take A Stand Sayings #664
#2. I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Wendy Liebman

Take A Stand Sayings #36983
#3. Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Charles Ives

Take A Stand Sayings #46478
#4. Stand by a moment while I take my place, in this universe of understated grace, and in the mirror of my eyes, behold your face.

Alida Van Braeden

Take A Stand Sayings #54977
#5. It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.

Cornel West

Take A Stand Sayings #62730
#6. John Green has written a powerful novel - one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a book that will touch your life, so don't read it sitting down. Stand up, and take a step into the Great Perhaps.

KL Going

Take A Stand Sayings #69735
#7. I can't stand cruelty to animals. Nothing gives a man the right to take his frustrations out on an innocent creature

Elise Noble

Take A Stand Sayings #76329
#8. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

Seth Klarman

Take A Stand Sayings #79738
#9. I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

Erykah Badu

Take A Stand Sayings #86361
#10. To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means you take a stand for Christ even though people make fun of you, persecute you - or even kill you!

Billy Graham

Take A Stand Sayings #91400
#11. The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.

Paul Kalanithi

Take A Stand Sayings #95396
#12. Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.

Okey Ndibe

Take A Stand Sayings #99319
#13. Ever since I was a child I have been a strong believer in the principle that to under-stand how anything works you need to take it apart and look at it in detail. This principle that worked with toys also works pretty well with search.

David Amerland

Take A Stand Sayings #100454
#14. There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.

Chip Ingram

Take A Stand Sayings #107684
#15. If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God.

Billy Graham

Take A Stand Sayings #133426
#16. Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If I have a choice to stand in line to get x-rayed, or see scenery, I'll take scenery.

Steve Kimock

Take A Stand Sayings #142290
#17. First let me take a piece of chalk and draw a circle round you, so you're safe. There. Now I'll stand guard, keeping a weather eye open for anything threatening, and we can catch up with each other while we wait.

Helen Simpson

Take A Stand Sayings #156905
#18. True love makes a person reckless, makes them take risks and make sacrifices. True love tests the boundaries of our person, makes us yearn to be better and fight for the ground we stand on. I will fight for this love. Lie for it. Steal for it. It's worthy of that.

Alessandra Torre

Take A Stand Sayings #164283
#19. What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.

Larry R. Lawrence

Take A Stand Sayings #164645
#20. I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

Amy Hempel

Take A Stand Sayings #174025
#21. You stand up straw men," Nynaeve said. "We have a saying in the Two Rivers. 'Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.' Take your contest somewhere else and leave Emond's Field folk out of it.

Robert Jordan

Take A Stand Sayings #178796
#22. What matters is not the features of our character or the drives and instincts per se, but rather the stand we take toward them. And the capacity to take such a stand is what makes us human beings.

Viktor E. Frankl

Take A Stand Sayings #179635
#23. Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

Lara Logan

Take A Stand Sayings #184275
#24. It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

Venus Williams

Take A Stand Sayings #186874
#25. I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.

Dennis C. Blair

Take A Stand Sayings #200135
#26. No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice
You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.

Jane Austen

Take A Stand Sayings #200569
#27. I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

Peter Porter

Take A Stand Sayings #211300
#28. I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Take A Stand Sayings #213597
#29. Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things.

Alan Arkin

Take A Stand Sayings #216945
#30. You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Jason Patric

Take A Stand Sayings #218023
#31. You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

Jim Rohn

Take A Stand Sayings #222431
#32. As long as you SIT, you Stay In Trouble. Once you STAND, you Shift Toward A New Direction, take a STEP, and Start To Embrace Purpose, then WALK to Welcome Abundance, Love and Knowledge.

Niquenya D. Fulbright

Take A Stand Sayings #232280
#33. A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

George S. Patton Jr.

Take A Stand Sayings #237122
#34. Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the most aggressive of lawyers who can cross-examine me on my personal history.

Lee Kuan Yew

Take A Stand Sayings #237208
#35. When I started wearing a yarmulke, I wanted to stand out or take the form of whatever was inspiring me. But now I think there's something to not working it, to keeping it on the inside, and it just being kind of like a secret.

Matisyahu

Take A Stand Sayings #239039
#36. If the law can be broken it will. Anyone who breaks the law is a risk. You can break the law. So you see, I have to take you in for questioning. This produce stand has an ominous future.

Benson Bruno

Take A Stand Sayings #240027
#37. I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Grace Abbott

Take A Stand Sayings #242694
#38. If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

Bill Brandt

Take A Stand Sayings #243084
#39. Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.

Hugh Prather

Take A Stand Sayings #244606
#40. That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for.

Sebastien De Castell

Take A Stand Sayings #245618
#41. 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

Take A Stand Sayings #255295
#42. Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Ezra Taft Benson

Take A Stand Sayings #256450
#43. Right where you are is where you need to be. Don't fight it! Don't run away from it! Stand firm! Take a deep breath. And another. And another. Now, ask yourself: Why is this in my world? What do I need to see?

Iyanla Vanzant

Take A Stand Sayings #256531
#44. Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero?

Arthur Miller

Take A Stand Sayings #259412
#45. Toph kicks over the microphone stand in a grand, asshole gesture, and the three of them jump off the stage. It's a little less dramatic when they have to come right back to take apart their stuff before the next band comes on.

Stephanie Perkins

Take A Stand Sayings #265165
#46. All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

Richard Mourdock

Take A Stand Sayings #270875
#47. Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Take A Stand Sayings #282152
#48. Sometimes, you've just got to take a stand. For yourself and for others.
Bubba

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Take A Stand Sayings #282346
#49. 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.

Take A Stand Sayings #297078
#50. Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don't want to be a slave to external powers.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Take A Stand Sayings #306527
#51. I'm not afraid to take a stand. Everybody come take my hand. We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. Just let you know that, you're not alone. Holla if you feel that you've been down the same road.

Eminem

Take A Stand Sayings #312430
#52. If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.
If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.
If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.
If you want a partner in life take my hand.
I'm your man.

Leonard Cohen

Take A Stand Sayings #316480
#53. People have been bullied in school, and it's their right to stop and take a stand for what they believe in

Jericho Pasaoa

Take A Stand Sayings #317138
#54. I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.

Iyanla Vanzant

Take A Stand Sayings #323335
#55. Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

Frank Costello

Take A Stand Sayings #326601
#56. It wasn't hard to take a liberal stand on race so long as it was seen as a Southern problem, and the Republicans didn't have any white Southerners to placate.

Rick Perlstein

Take A Stand Sayings #327503
#57. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't take.

Susan Meissner

Take A Stand Sayings #329132
#58. Whenever you come upon a free supply of high-quality corn, provided unexpectedly right there in the middle of the forest, be careful! The people who put it there are probably sitting nearby in a stand, just waiting to take a shot at you. Keep your eyes and ears open!

James C. Dobson

Take A Stand Sayings #343127
#59. I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.

Eric Schlosser

Take A Stand Sayings #350110
#60. Take a stand: live for love, truth, beauty!

Bryant McGill

Take A Stand Sayings #353876
#61. 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

Take A Stand Sayings #381051
#62. To take a stand for the future is to bring forth an opportunity not borne of the path we've taken in the past, but borne of a vision which we would create for ourselves.

Werner Erhard

Take A Stand Sayings #382016
#63. I'm twenty-four, it's a Friday night, and I'm waiting in for a take-out gyros and fries in my onesie. My life is just so exciting I can barely stand it.

Emma Hart

Take A Stand Sayings #384440
#64. Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take A Stand Sayings #385835
#65. I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don't allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime - and that's OK.

Beau Taplin

Take A Stand Sayings #388920
#66. For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses.

Sheldon Adelson

Take A Stand Sayings #389798
#67. [When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.

Anna Howard Shaw

Take A Stand Sayings #393125
#68. A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place to inhabit. So, don't be afraid to take a stand .

Ankita Singhal

Take A Stand Sayings #398234
#69. Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

Michael Jackson

Take A Stand Sayings #398496
#70. But I love him like crazy, you know? And when you love someone like crazy, should you stand around being scared that something might not work out, or do you do something about it and take a chance?

Mary Calmes

Take A Stand Sayings #414886
#71. I am not a success if all I do is fit into somebody's prescription; its better to stand out and be celebrated for being a definition. The world would prefer to take the bitter pills of an achiever than the sweet chocolates of a mediocre.

Bayode Ojo

Take A Stand Sayings #429513
#72. But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

David Platt

Take A Stand Sayings #438109
#73. It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed.

Ray Bradbury

Take A Stand Sayings #442466
#74. Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Take A Stand Sayings #444104
#75. I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a real stand-in version of your comic. People will have to take advantage of the ability to have sound, or zoom in and out, whatever it is.

Adrian Tomine

Take A Stand Sayings #460940
#76. Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

Barbara Coloroso

Take A Stand Sayings #468847
#77. Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged.

Billy Graham

Take A Stand Sayings #472614
#78. Sometimes, Dan, friends have to take a stand and say:
Hey, idiot, we're here for you no matter what. We're not
going to disappear when you get grumpy or angry, we're in
this for the long haul. We're in this for each other.

Madeleine Roux

Take A Stand Sayings #474693
#79. The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

David B. Haight

Take A Stand Sayings #488679
#80. I don't think I've ever been either militant or profound as an anti-Fascist. When the issue has come up, when certain things have come up, and I've been called on to express - literally, when I've been cornered, then I take a left-wing stand.

Nelson Algren

Take A Stand Sayings #489005
#81. I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

Walter E. Williams

Take A Stand Sayings #502579
#82. Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today.

Kate Kelly

Take A Stand Sayings #503082
#83. A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

Paule Marshall

Take A Stand Sayings #506924
#84. The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly.

John Barth

Take A Stand Sayings #508058
#85. I'm a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

Madonna Ciccone

Take A Stand Sayings #519323
#86. I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

Bo Jackson

Take A Stand Sayings #519719
#87. For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare? Take off your shoes for a while, unzip your fly, piss hearty, dig your toes in the hot sand, feel that raw and rugged earth, split a couple of big toenails, draw blood! Why not?

Edward Abbey

Take A Stand Sayings #521840
#88. I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Annie Lennox

Take A Stand Sayings #528944
#89. Before you say one word to God, take a minute and imagine what it would be like to stand before His throne as you pray.

Francis Chan

Take A Stand Sayings #533743
#90. I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

John Leo

Take A Stand Sayings #534839
#91. It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

Rita Mae Brown

Take A Stand Sayings #535024
#92. Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare, and it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

Nancy Reagan

Take A Stand Sayings #535821
#93. I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

Bill Bennett

Take A Stand Sayings #549899
#94. 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

Take A Stand Sayings #554166
#95. Which is worse: to take a stand and fail or to fail to stand

Lester L. Laminack

Take A Stand Sayings #554298
#96. I think people get excited about their perspective on sexuality because it gives them the feeling that, their failures notwithstanding, if they take a hard stand on what they consider to be godly, maybe God will be more merciful to them.

Walter Wink

Take A Stand Sayings #561078
#97. Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.

Ted Nugent

Take A Stand Sayings #577677
#98. I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a point not to take a tour or stand in the circle until music took me there. I told myself that was one place I'd never go unless music took me there.

Dustin Lynch

Take A Stand Sayings #581095
#99. To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world.

Christopher Hitchens

Take A Stand Sayings #598260
#100. The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

David Steinberg

Take A Stand Sayings #607636

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