Stand Quotes

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I stand in awe of my body."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-Albert Einstein

"The faith that stand on authority is not faith."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln

"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
-Mark Twain

"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
-Mark Twain

"To stand up -- or be setup?"
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"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."
-Bob Marley

"Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Don't give up the fight."
-Bob Marley

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. "
-George Orwell

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-George Orwell

"'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'"
-Sir Winston Churchill

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
-Thomas Jefferson

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."
-Oscar Wilde

"It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."
-Virgil

"It made our hair stand up in panic fear."
-Sophocles

"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others."
-John F. Kennedy

"Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Here stand I. I can do no other."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand."
-Oprah Winfrey

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. "
-Oliver Wendell Holmes