Stand Up Quotes

“If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life just so you can survive.
'Now, I don't like the idea of what Charlie Simms did to you no more than your Uncle Hammer, but I had to weigh the hurt of what happened to you to what could've happened if I went after him. If I'd-a gone after Charlie Simms and given him a good thrashin', like I felt like doing, the hurt to all of us would've been a whole lot more than the hurt to you. So I let it be. I don't like letting it be, but I can live with that decision.
'But there are other things, Cassie, that if I'd let be, they'd eat away at me and destroy me in the end. And it's the same with you, baby. There are things you can't back down on. Things you gotta take a stand on, but it's up to you to decide what them things are.
'You have to demand respect in this world. Ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you. How you carry yourself, what you stand for, that's how you gain respect. But little one, ain't nobody's respect worth more than your own. You understand that?'
'Now, there ain't no sense going around being mad. You clear your head so you can think sensibly. Then I want you to think real hard about whether Lillian Jean's worth taking a stand about. But keep in mind that Lillian Jean probably won't be the last white person to think you this way.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights.”
― Anthony Liccione

“If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal.”
― Mavis Leno

“If we choose not to get involved or pretend it's not happening, we're going against the very sense of connection that makes us human.”
― Brené Brown

“If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.”
― Germany Kent

“Not one of us knows what we can do, until one fine day, we stand up and do it.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“You don’t need validation or approval from anyone but yourself. Even if the entire world goes against, disagrees with or attempts to crush you, stand up for what you believe in, and stand up alone if you have to! It’s better to die while living your own truth than to live in the truth of another. Lord Krishna in the holy Bhagavad Gita pointed this out when he said;

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”

Integrity is the key to freedom. It’s only your own truth that can ‘set you free.’ It’s perfectly fine if your truth doesn’t match that of others because the experience of physical reality is a completely subjective one. It doesn’t make either of you wrong, as long as you’re both being true to yourselves, that’s all that matters.”
― Craig Krishna, The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind

“When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?”
― Pam Brown

“The guilt you felt
when you were smiling
and others were suffering,
the guilt you felt
when you were petty with friends
and impatient with your parents,
when you were rude to your teachers
and didn’t stand up for strangers,
that guilt
is marvellous.
It proves that you are human,
that you want to be better.
Thank this guilt for teaching you,
for making you aware.
And now endeavour to better yourself.
It is a lifelong work to become
the person we want to be.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Silence is the most expensive to buy.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.”
― Anthony Liccione

“There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Make sure you are standing for something you believe in.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“A leader must stand up for his team even when he has to stand alone.”
― Farshad Asl

“Angriness is one the powerful weapon to stand up again.”
― viral panchal

“I used to be in control of a yard on Milton Street, where fellas could come there and sleep. If they came there with jewelry, money, guns, or drugs, whatever they came with in their possession under my watch, they always left with what they came with. There was no one there trying to take advantage of them, or trying to take their possessions. This was one of the main things that I stood for, but in other parts of the gang that trust was not there. They did not feel safe. Even though we were a part of the same gang, they knew that they could be robbed by their own fellow gang members. Galen ‘Ninja’ Nordelus former leader of the Public Terrorist Rebellions through Milton Street”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“FAITH is not the LAST OPTION left,
It is the FIRST REASON to STAND FIRM
in what we BELIEVED”
― Julie Jenifer

“The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!”
― Avijeet Das

“People often say to me: Oy! Get out of my garden.”
― Michael Redmond

“On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.”
― Dan J. Marlowe, The Name of the Game Is Death

“This is the way to shine; to make a difference even as you choose to stand up, speak out and maintain a valid positive opinion.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“There is a commanded blessing on anyone that values, esteems and stands for justice in society.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Death is easy, you just take the gun or the knife and you just start to suicede by your own or you tell to somebody who is relative to you or somebody who is a friend it doesn't matter and you give him the gun or you say to him what to do and he kills you. This is easy, we aren't born to give up, we aren't born to die let's make ways, let's make our choices, even if you are down in the misearble place and you have lost hope and everything. You mustn't give up continue, stand up say that you won't give up, make few breaths and exhalations, then go to this road and continue. That's your mission!”
― Deyth Banger

“…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed.”
― Joan Rivers, Enter Talking

“If you do finish the book and are still scared of me and people of my ilk, then I recommend you schedule an appointment with a therapist. Either that, or try writing your own book”
― Maz Jobrani, I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man

“Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Any day stands .”
― Napz Cherub Pellazo

“To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts