Stand Quotes

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

I stand up to people.

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'

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

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Whether you're president or speaker, if you're wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. That's what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.