Top 144 Standing Up Quotes

Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I’d say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies – and I’ve observed a lot now – don’t do a very good job of that.

It’s great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.

Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

A cat’s rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that’s not the conventional definition of hiding.

When the Pledge of Allegiance, the songs of this country, anything is played – we should be standing up. Hand over our hearts. Saluting, if you’re in the military… That’s the way I feel about it. And, that’s what I think everybody should do including all the NFL players.

In a world of competing conflicts and challenges, the U.K.’s investment in global security, and a willingness to trial new approaches and respond to emerging threats, is an important part of standing up for our values.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.

I’m a pretty open book, so not being out publicly felt inauthentic. Hopefully we can get to a point where your personal life isn’t anybody else’s business, but until then, it’s less about people having to know about your sexuality than standing up for what’s right and fighting for equality.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying ‘This is who I am’.

Kamala Harris is fumbling and she’s like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go after Twitter because Elizabeth Warren sucked all the oxygen out of the room.’ She’s standing up and saying, ‘I’m going to go after Facebook, I’m going to break them up, I’m going to go after all of these big technology companies.’

Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate – entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world – turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump’s whims and the furies of his base.

You’ve got to be vulnerable when you’re talking to kids. There’s nothing worse than some adult standing up there just talking down to some kid. You can’t work that way.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody’s got a louder mouth than them; it doesn’t make any sense.

Shanti was a strong woman who stood for many things. I would find myself standing up for the rest of the unit when the food served was bad.

I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.

I’ve never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.

I’d much rather be liked because people realize that I’m standing up for myself.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

That’s standard for being a Green: standing up for a long-term future, which is a much more clear view of where the world is going to and where this country should be going there than either of the old parties have.

Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.

My problem isn’t death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

You have to make the most of any time you are given, and any opportunity I’m given, whether it was as Charlotte Flair’s protege, standing up against Ronda Rousey, being the statistician of Titus Worldwide, I want to show my range.

The people standing up most strongly for our democracies should be celebrated, not prosecuted – be it those countless human rights defenders who defend all our rights or the brave whistle-blowers who expose tax dodging.

I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, ‘Oh boy, I should not be here.’ Obviously, I didn’t win.

I’m officially middle-aged. I don’t need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

Anybody who knows me has said, ‘I had a Denis O’Hare moment.’ I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street.

There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I’m concerned I’m actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I’m a man.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

For the longest, I was slightly naive when it came to the real world. There were a lot of fears I was afraid to conquer that were just holding me back from standing up for myself or taking chances.

Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they’re wrong.

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn’t necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

These guys that were standing up to fight, for the most part, had pride in their country, and they wanted to do the best, and they wanted to go out and fight, and I was as close to these Afghans as I was to the Marines.

A lot of people are thanking me for standing up, but I don’t want to be the only one standing up. Our political leaders are important. But I don’t see anyone hunting down these guys setting refugee camps on fire or sending them to jail.

Standing up for what you believe is right, as well as standing up for what you believe is funny, standing up for what you believe is cool. As we found each other and the music that we do, we get to live out all of those things. That’s what Run The Jewels is: it’s all of those aspects of our personality.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

It’s not whether you fall or make a mistake, it’s what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It’s not how many times you fall, it’s how many times you stand up.

I’m sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there’s a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother – they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

Since I was a teenager I have been standing up to antisemitism, racism and discrimination in all its forms.

You know the actor’s nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer’s nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, ‘That’s not your story.’

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

My father was my hero, both for the physical things he could do and for the values he taught me, about honesty and standing up for what you believe in. I never felt like I was living in his shadow.

It’s like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I’m talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn’t even cutting it, I’m taking a TV dinner and I’m getting in bed here.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.