100+ Stood Up Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "‘Malala is a Miracle’: A Friend’s Tribute to Clinton Global Citizen Award Recipient Malala Yousafzai" by Shiza Shahid, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2013.

topic: Girl, Want, Stood Up

The Chinese people have stood up.

- Mao Zedong

source: Zedong Mao “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung: The period of the socialist revolution and socialist construction (I)”

topic: People, Chinese, Stood Up

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Lying, Stood Up

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.

- Robert Hass

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Pounds, Kind, Stood Up, Eliot

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

- Rod Serling

topic: Stood Up, Knows, Toms

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate". www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

topic: Proud, Stood Up, Ability

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Life, Leadership, Inspirational Bullying, Conformist

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

topic: Home, Tea, Cookies, Female Empowerment, International Women's Day

So many girls out there say, "I'm not a feminist" because they think it means something angry or disgruntled or complaining or they picture, like, rioting and picketing. It is not that at all. It just simply means that you believe that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Girl, Believe, Mean, Stood Up, Disgruntled

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

- Quentin Crisp

topic: Peace, Atheist, Believe, Protestants, Stood Up

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Life, Beautiful, Book, Inspiration To Write, Creative Writing

But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself.

- Sakura Tsukuba

topic: Stood Up

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

- Winston Churchill

source: Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

topic: Life, Inspiring, Graduation, Just Give Up, Just Stay Strong

Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

- Beyonce Knowles

source: "Beyonce opens up on feminism, fame and marriage" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2014.

topic: Men, Appreciate, Balance, Stood Up

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

- Ellen Page

topic: Powerful, People, Feminist, Stood Up

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

- Ashton Kutcher

source: "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Views, Stood Up, Really Powerful

I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Girlfriend, Men, Thinking, Stood Up

Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.

- Lena Dunham

source: "Girls’ Lena Dunham: Women saying ‘I’m not a feminist’ is my greatest pet peeve" by Jane Mulkerrins, metro.co.uk. January 14, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Believe, Men, Stood Up, Peeves

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Stood Up

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

- Miley Cyrus

topic: Want, Periods, Should, Stood Up

I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me.

- Daniel Radcliffe

topic: Sex, Men, Thinking, Stood Up

Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.

- Patrick Stewart

topic: Profound, Promise, Might, Stood Up, Violence Against Women

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

- Dalai Lama

topic: Fighting, Rights, Feminist, Stood Up

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

- Priyanka Chopra

topic: Inspiration, Rights, Stories, Stood Up

Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.

- J. L. Austin

topic: Men, Thinking, Drawing, Stood Up, Connexion

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

- Carl Sandburg

source: Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Boys, Men, Ideas, Stood Up, Absent Minded

Before it was called Hillarycare - I mean, before it was called ObamaCare it was called Hillarycare because we took them on, and we weren't successful, but we kept fighting and we got the children's health insurance program. Every step along the way I have stood up, and fought, and have the scars to prove it.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate". www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

topic: Children, Mean, Fighting, Stood Up, Every Step

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: America, People, Looks, Stood Up, Corporate America

There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have upwards of 2000. There are educational programs that didn't exist before, there are housing programs, health programs, senior citizen programs, cultural programs and the list goes on. It's all because some people stood up and said sovereignty is our right by treaty and the constitution says treaty law is the supreme law of the land.

- Leonard Peltier

source: Source: montanapioneer.com

topic: Stood Up, Educational Programs

I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

- Ron Paul

source: The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

topic: Country, Military, Believe, Aggressiveness, Stood Up

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

- Tom Petty

topic: Personality, Unjust, Problem, Stood Up

No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Knowing, America, Stood Up

It is fair to say, Bernie Sanders, that in your definition, as you being the self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism, I don't know anyone else who fits that definition, but I know a lot of really hard fighting progressives in the Democratic party who have stood up time, and time again against special interests, against the powerful on behalf of those who are left behind and left out.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Powerful, Party, Fighting, Gatekeepers, Left Out

Because John McCain stood up, our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of a teleprompter speech designed to appeal to American critics abroad but because of decades of clearly demonstrated character and statesmanship.

- Fred Thompson

source: Fred Thompson's Remarks on John McCain's character, www.npr.org. September 2, 2008.

topic: Country, Character, World, Stood Up

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.

- Diana Wynne Jones

source: Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.62, Penguin

topic: Hero, Thinking, Married, Stood Up

Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'

- Dave Grohl

source: "Dave Grohl: How To Make An Arena Feel Like A Punk Club". Interview with Jacob Ganz, www.npr.org. April 07, 2011.

topic: Queens, Gone, Band, Stood Up

The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It's very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of a woman in her late youth. She was sitting in a chair all alone by a window with the moonlight streaming in on her desolate face, and she'd been stood up by the man she planned to marry.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Men, Play, Ideas, Stood Up, Menagerie

Now, there was an anchorite called Timothy in a coenobium. The abbot, having heard of a brother who was being tempted, asked Timothy about him, and the anchorite advised him to drive the brother away. Then when he had been driven away, the brother's temptation fell upon Timothy to the point where he was in danger. Then Timothy stood up before God and said, "I have sinned. Forgive me." Then a voice came which said to him, "Timothy, the only reason I have done this to you is because you despised your brother in the time of his temptation."

- Poemen

topic: Forgiveness, Brother, Voice, Stood Up

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Mean, Caring, Thinking About You, Stood Up, Stop Caring

The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds.

- Bill Frist

source: "Bill Frist on Cindy McCain's Humanitarian Efforts". "America's Election HQ" with Bill Hemmer, www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2008.

topic: Children, Cutting, Two, Stood Up, Rwanda

To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

- Carly Fiorina

source: Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

topic: War, Tough Times, Decision, Stood Up, Commander In Chief

He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing. I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.

- Kiera Cass

topic: Children, Father, Love You, Stood Up

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

- Kevin Hart

topic: Mother, Hate, Kids, Stood Up, Ex Wife

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.583, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Men, Justice, Brave, Stood Up

Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Eye, Two, Feet, Stood Up

And what I tell people is this - as a citizen of this country, there are certain rights that are given to you. Officer Encinia's decision to forcibly remove Sandy from her vehicle, which predicated on the fact that he asked her to do something - he did not lawfully order her to do something - to which she responded with a question. And for that - for that - I celebrate her because during a time where so many people would have remained silent she stood up for herself, and she invoked the rights that are due to her, and that is not unlawful.

- Sharon Cooper

source: "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

topic: Country, Rights, Order, Stood Up, Unlawful

Fine." Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial." Alec flushed. "If you say so," he said. "I say so," said Magnus, and he turned to follow Isabelle out of the room.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1676, Simon and Schuster

topic: Rooms, Pausing, Chairs, Leaning In, Stood Up

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

- Chris Christie

topic: Strong, Past, Reform, Stood Up

So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

topic: Night, Blue, Hands, Stood Up, Eat Pray Love Book

People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or what they were than he had. They believed their flashing signs, too. They ought to be standing up and shouting, "This isn't me! This isn't me!" They would if they had any decency. "This isn't me!" Then you might know how to proceed through the flashing bullshit of this world.

- Philip Roth

topic: Ideas, People, Bullshit, Stood Up, This Is Me

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Flames, Agony, Causes, Stood Up, Swaying

Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.

- David Wojnarowicz

topic: Perfect, Darkness, Would Be, Stood Up, Only God Knows

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