Standing Alone Quotes - Page 2

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

  Suzy Kassem

  Being Alone, Feeling Alone, Stand Alone

  "Truth Is Crying" by Suzy Kassem, 2008.

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• It is almost inevitable that our faith will be challenged. We may at times find ourselves surrounded by others and yet standing in the minority or even standing alone concerning what is acceptable and what is not. Do we have the moral courage to stand firm for our beliefs, even if by so doing we must stand alone?

  Thomas S. Monson

  May, Minorities, Belief

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• The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Happiness, Courage, Integrity

  NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.

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• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  Mariah Carey

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Song: Outside, Album: Butterfly, 1997

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• The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Islands, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

  Criss Jami

  Sympathy, Needs, Helping

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami

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• It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

  Anne Rice

  Beach, Ocean, Eye

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.22, Ballantine Books

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  Barney Ross

  Blue, Buoys, All Alone

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• We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Defense, Might

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• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hope, Impossible, Bent

  'A Summer Night' l. 68

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• Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

  Aeschylus

  Mind, Obstinacy, All Things

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

  Bruce Lee

  Roots, People, Insecurity

  "Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living".

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• What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sitting, Young, Elders

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• Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

  Kiese Laymon

  Real, Character, Safety

  Kiese Laymon (2016). “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Self, Long

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Trials, Shelter, Helping

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• Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

  Kristin Hannah

  Ghost, Said, Left

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.161, Macmillan

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• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  Xunzi

  Distance, Climbing, Toes

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• I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

  Anne Tyler

  Mother, Children, Writing

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• I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

  Wen Ho Lee

  Long, Progress, May

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• Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

  Elmer Rice

  Men, Vagrants, Has Beens

  "The Living Theatre".

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• I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Government, America, President

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• Blue moon you saw me standing alone
  Without a dream in my heart
  Without a love of my own.

  Lorenz Hart

  Dream, Heart, Sadness

  "Song: 'Blue Moon'". 1952.

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• The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

  Mitch Gaylord

  Memories, Team, Bronze Medal

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• A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

  Graham Coxon

  Singers, Microphones, Walkers

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