Stand Up For Yourself Quotes

• Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouraging, Courage, Bravery

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2016

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• The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Motivation, Believe, Philosophical

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• You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Running, Two, Choices

  SIDNEY SHELDON (2016). “NOTHING LASTS FOREVER”, p.80, GR

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• Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Life Is Too Short

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2014

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• As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Thinking, People, Said

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• It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true

  Lily Collins

  People, Important, Feels

  "Interview: Actress Lily Collins on 'Mirror Mirror,' Modern Day Princes, Beauty in Hollywood". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

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  Sherry Argov

  People, Energy, Negative

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, People, Helping

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

  Sophie Turner

  Believe, Bravery, World Affairs

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• That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

  Shane Koyczan

  Knows, Hard, Ifs

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• I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

  Eva Gabrielsson

  Believe, People, Vengeance

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• When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!

  Doreen Virtue

  Example, Standing

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• It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

  Cody Linley

  Believe, Important, World Affairs

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• Do something about your life now. You know you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Don't just think about it, look at it, and complain about it to whoever will listen. Stop conning yourself into being a volunteer victim, or telling the same old story. You are better than that. It's time to stand up for yourself and your dream. This is the one and only life that you have. Don't waste it watching someone's life - on tv, in a movie, a series or reality show. Take your power back and make a move. Live your life on your terms, and create something new in your life. You Deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Moving, Tired

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• And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, People, Helping

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• I learned that you can stand up for yourself and still maintain your zen!

  Doreen Virtue

  Stills

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• When you come from a family of ten children you learn very early on in life to stand up for yourself and hold your ground regarding the things you're passionate about.

  Sufe Bradshaw

  Children, Passionate, Ten

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• The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.

  Bonnie Raitt

  College, Years, Feminist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

  Dee Snider

  Song, Believe, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.

  Claudia Rankine

  Role Models, Roles, Racist

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.

  Brad Stine

  Hate, Views, Taught

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• When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the toss and then she will respect you', the trouble is that sort of advice to the English middle-class male of a certain age doesn't actually help us very much because we've always been brought up to believe that it's extremely rude to shout back at women.

  Julian Critchley

  Believe, Class, Rude

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's kind of awkward when everyone knows you're gay but you don't say it. I had been thinking about coming out for almost a year before I did. I thought about it seriously on the plane ride home from the World Cup, while I was casually talking to my friend Lori Lindsey. She said, "Dude, you should just come out." She was right. Everyone in my life already knew. If you want to stand up and fight for equal rights but then won't even stand up for yourself and say "I'm gay" - that just started to feel weird.

  Megan Rapinoe

  Home, Fighting, Gay

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