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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.
Chip Ingram
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Sometimes, you've just got to take a stand. For yourself and for others.
Bubba
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. People have been bullied in school, and it's their right to stop and take a stand for what they believe in
Jericho Pasaoa
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#21. 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
#22. Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged.
Billy Graham
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
Annie Lennox
#31. Take a stand. Be disruptive for the greater good of your company. Make a difference to other's people's lives.
Timi Nadela
#32. When you take a stand against injustice inflicted upon innocent people, there will be those who will hate you for it.
Ellen J. Barrier
#34. Be willing to take a stand for the things you believe in, because no one else will stand there for you.
Lolly Daskal
#35. The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#36. I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a stand for Christ and being a blessing to believers.
Mike Huckabee
#37. But the truth is, feelings don't change anything. To change something, you have to say things out loud. Do things. Take chances. Take a stand" -Riley
Jeff Garvin
#38. There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.
Moby
#39. Say YES to life. Participate. Move. Act. Write. Read. Sign up. Take a stand. Or do whatever it takes for you. Get involved in the process.
Susan Jeffers
#40. I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.
Maggie Grace
#41. Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.
Rick Bayan
#42. This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.
Stephen Harper
#43. It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.
Jason Robert Brown
#44. He's not asking me to make a choice. He's telling me to take a stand. I'm either with him or against him. All or nothing. I'm disgusted with the whole business. I don't want smicha if the price I have to pay for it is to stop thinking.
Chaim Potok
#45. Look no farther than your hand, make a choice and take a stand
Shannon Hale
#46. I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.
Ayad Allawi
#47. We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
Mike Pence
#48. I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it.
John Hughes
#49. Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#50. Take a stand, America! You deserve better. Resolve to live life vibrantly by looking to family, faith, and freedom in this new year!
Sarah Palin
#51. In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
Aasif Mandvi
#52. For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'
Jill Soloway
#53. Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
Vance Havner
#54. It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
Viktor E. Frankl
#55. The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
Richard M. Nixon
#56. The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!
Avijeet Das
#57. The weather seemed afraid to take a stand and clung noncommittally to some sort of road's middle; Board of Directors' weather, she thought.
Ayn Rand
#59. Let's empower men and help them take a stand to stop acts of violence against women.
Michelle Yeoh
#61. God honors you when you take a stand for what is right.
Jim George
#62. They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.
Dan Groat
#63. When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
Bruce Hornsby
#64. To be free in Christ, our high places will have to fall. We must be willing to take a stand against idolatry.
Beth Moore
#65. Evil won't leave you alone until you take a stand or until you're dead.
Dan Groat
#66. Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God.
Jim Burns
#67. The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#68. Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.
Willie Nelson
#69. The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.
Ken Liu
#70. Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.
Samuel L. Jackson
#71. It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.
Alison Eastwood
#72. Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for
Oprah Winfrey
#74. Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
Susan Faludi
#75. My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends ... and to return to lasting values.
Gae Aulenti
#76. I always feel I have to take a stand,
And there's always someone on hand
To hate me for standing there.
I always feel I have to open my mouth,
And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.
Ani DiFranco
#77. Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as you can for capturing you. Fight them all the way.
Robin Hobb
#78. Take a stand. Be known for your courage and confidence.
Indra Nooyi
#79. When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
Barbara Boxer
#80. I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.
Sanjay Kumar
#81. 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
#82. Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
Charles Ives
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. I can't stand cruelty to animals. Nothing gives a man the right to take his frustrations out on an innocent creature
Elise Noble
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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