Stand Quotes
7661 Stand quotes by 4427 unique authors
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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its…
— John Stott
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Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching out for you.…
— Harlow Curtice
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Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Divinity is the elementary personality of a human being. When he can stand before corruption and win, that is an undivided personality. It is called…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to…
— Walter Benjamin
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This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.
— Swami Vivekananda
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To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I,…
— Marge Piercy
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A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot…
— George Gilder
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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you…
— Pat Summitt
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We will never, never sell our freedom for capital or technical aid. We stand for freedom at any cost.
— Tom Mboya
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A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon…
— Leon Uris
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I stand astonished at my own moderation
— Robert Clive
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A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it
— George Clymer
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
— Bob Goff
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I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven…
— Anthony Minghella
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We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a…
— Tracy K. Smith
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It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
— Sugata Mitra
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As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters and wind, and…
— Rod Coronado
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The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the…
— John Kuhn
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage.…
— Padmasree Warrior
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I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll…
— Lee Ann Womack
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