Stand Alone Quotes

• Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

  Confucius

  Wise, Philosophical, Practice

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crowds, Easy

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• It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

  Hans Froði Hansen

  Life, Positivity, Crowds

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• You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

  Queen Latifah

  Believe, Sometimes, Adolescence

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• I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

  Adrian Rogers

  Errors, Light, Crowds

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• --then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

  John Keats

  I Love You, Thinking, World

  'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)

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• Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

  Andrew Cohen

  Soul, Want, Willing

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• Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

  Jens Jensen

  Tree, Plant, Landscaping

  Jens Jensen (1990). “Siftings”, p.42, JHU Press

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• There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Strong, Support

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”

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  A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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• Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

  Suzy Kassem

  Being Alone, Feeling Alone, Standing Alone

  "Truth Is Crying" by Suzy Kassem, 2008.

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• True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Inspirational, Evil, True Courage

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• I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Personality

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• For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Midst, Universe

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• Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.

  Jackie Olson

  Cheer, Positive Thinking, Self Confidence

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• You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

  Jim Rohn

  Courage, Creativity, Choices

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• Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

  Gregory Corso

  Power, Poetry, Waiting

  Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.303, New Directions Publishing

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• To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Adversity, Sacred, Moments

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.285, Macmillan

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• A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Freedom, Integrity

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• It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

  Marion Woodman

  Courage, Past, Break

  Marion Woodman (1982). “Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study”

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• Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone

  Sophie Scholl

  Believe, Standing Alone, Ifs

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• But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dark, Men, Presidential

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.

  Adyashanti

  Humility, Past, Innocence

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• My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Strength, Sex, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.6

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• Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

  Tom Robbins

  Giants, Genius, May

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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