Stand Up Quotes

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

~ Evan Esar

We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.

~ Kevin Lima

My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

~ Malala Yousafzai

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

~ Al Franken

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

~ Thalia

For me, I've always found people who stand up and spritz themselves all over their clothes very odd. I'm a big bath addict, and I get up in the morning, and I have a big bath. But when I get out, and I'm still hot but fresh out of the bath, that's when I apply scent. I just have it on my bare skin; I never apply it to my clothes.

~ Poppy Delevingne

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

~ Joel Edgerton

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

~ Jesse Jackson

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

~ Blake Shelton

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

~ Terry Pratchett

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

~ Thomas Sowell

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

~ Ben Nelson

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'

~ Maya Angelou

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

~ Maya Angelou

Trump has the courage to stand up to Wall Street, to the K Street lobbyists, and say our trade deals have not been best for the ordinary, average citizen American.

~ Virgil Goode

What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.

~ Jim Demint

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

~ Geraldine Brooks

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

It's very important that you tell someone when you are being bullied - someone that you trust. You should never be quiet when you are being bullied or when you see someone being bullied. It's so important to stand up and say something.

~ Stephanie Mcmahon

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

~ Janine Turner

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

~ Nigel Farage

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

~ Tracy Morgan

Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.

~ Tracy Morgan

To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.

~ Alex Morgan

We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.

~ Edward Snowden

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

~ Lenny Kravitz