Stand Quotes

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. (Confucius)
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. View quote
Archimedes
In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. View quote
Hedy Lamarr
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. View quote
Winston Churchill
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. View quote
Arthur Miller
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. (Paul Robeson)
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. View quote
James A. Garfield
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. View quote
George Gissing
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side. View quote
Bob Marley
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. View quote
Bob Marley
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. View quote
H. G. Wells
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. View quote
Clint Eastwood
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong. (Abraham Lincoln)
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? View quote
Quentin Crisp
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. View quote
Harry S. Truman
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. View quote
George Boole
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. View quote
Montesquieu