Stand Quotes

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
Bill Watterson

Live, Different, Ourselves

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
Don Rickles

Alone, Yourself, Different

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones

Alone, Leader, Show

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke

Down, Ambition, High

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Good, Bad

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
Charles R. Swindoll

Society, Nothing, Person

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
Desmond Tutu

Crowd, Shoulders, Carrying

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Martha Gellhorn

Tough, Opinion, Citizen

I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.
Gilda Radner

Change, Sleep, Sometimes

We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.
Jenny McCarthy

Children, Real, Enough

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

Storm, Once, Caught

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
Brigitte Bardot

Cannot, Luxury, Loathe

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Mother, Person

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Mary Kay Ash

Best, Wisdom, Try

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia

Power, Freedom, Thought

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.
Stephen Harper

Values, Interests, Anywhere

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
Adele

Love, Writing, Everyone

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
Eileen Caddy

Mean, May, Eyes

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
Diane Arbus

Work, Mean, Front

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Together, Find, Away

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
William Shatner

Time, Gossip, Lives

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

Focus, Opinion, Public

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
Roger Federer

Lost, Blame, Won

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.
Adele

Away, Wanted, Sing

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
Michael Bloomberg

Decisions, Criticism

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
Michael J. Fox

Short, Else, Everybody

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch

System, Cowards, Biggest

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
Katherine Jenkins

Life, Time, Live

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
Peter Steele

Thought, Thoughts, Try

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
Emo Philips

England, Unusual

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