Quotes About Stand

My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in.

This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.

Any attempt to attack, defend, or withdraw will work against you. Instead, you must restrain these reactive tendencies, find the courage to stand your ground, and then step forward in the face of this determined opposition.

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.

2 Corinthians 6:17). We are called to come out from the catacombs of intimidation, as well as from the defilement of the world — and to stand as beacons of God's truth, regardless of opposition or backlash.

Emerson long resisted a public stand on behalf of abolitionism

Once we have made a choice or taken a stand, we will encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently with that commitment. Those pressures will cause us to respond in ways that justify our earlier decision.

We should ask our commanders... Elayne trailed off. If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion. There's only one, Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight. One last toss of the dice.

Demandred! Galad yelled. Demandred, you call for the Dragon Reborn! You demand to fight him! He is not here, but his brother is! Will you stand against me?

My love is gone, carried away, by the wind that shakes the willow, and all the land is beaten hard, by the wind that shakes the willow. But I will hold her close to me in heart and dearest memory, and with her strength to steel my soul, her love to warm my heart-strings, I will stand where we once sang, though cold wind shakes the willow.

in most of these cases, integrity and courage were ultimately rewarded professionally. In a perfect world, that should always happen. But sadly, in the real world it does not, and I will not pretend there is no risk. You will, at some point or another, work for a jackass. We all have. That is why speaking up often requires courage. But that does not make taking a stand any less necessary for the sake of our country. Page 467

When I take a stand, everyone else knows where they stand.

Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical. I can stand wickedness, but I can't stand foolishness

And Maureen and Charlotte would stand guard if Al didn't, and to hell with that. The only good thing about Hammerfall, women's lib was dead milliseconds after Hammerstrike.

Do we have the manhood in the Senate to stand up to a challenge of that kind?" The

Larry and the pilot stood to one side, smoking, sharing that camaraderie of all people who are determined to blacken their lungs.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand.

In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.