Standing Alone Quotes

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

  Hans Froði Hansen

  Life, Positivity, Crowds

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

  Sophie Scholl

  Believe, Stand Alone, Ifs

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• Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

  W. Clement Stone

  Giving, Abundance, Invisible

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• The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Strength, Loneliness, Men

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.125, Henrik Ibsen

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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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• I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  God, Inspiration, Simple

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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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• I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Want, Welcome

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• Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Motivational, Courage, Pain

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• Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the tree the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me. I wonder if other folks ever feel included yet alone.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Blow, Rocks, Wind

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• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Faith, Loneliness

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• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Action, Deliberation

  Charles de Gaulle (1959). “War Memoirs”

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• We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

  Bruce Lee

  Certitude

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.240, Tuttle Publishing

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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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• A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Inspirational, Friendship, Gratitude

  "Ethics and Citizenship". Book by John Walter Wayland, p. 208, 1924.

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• Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Slumps, Literature, World

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG”

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• Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
  Followed each other till a dreary moor
  Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top
  Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge,
  I overlooked the bed of Windermere,
  Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, July, Rivers

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.492

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• Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Unique, Community

  Frances Moore Lappé (1991). “Rediscovering America's Values”

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• The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Long, Political

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• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

  John Muir

  Nature, Men, Space

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.321, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

  Jim Morrison

  Guts

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• That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

  Kristin Hannah

  Opportunity, Waiting, Rest Of Your Life

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.297, Ballantine Books

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

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sarcasm, People

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Important, Looks

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• I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

  Sondre Lerche

  Lonely, Fun, Writing

  "Sondre Lerche’s Barn Identity". Interview with Chloe Eichler, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2011.

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