Standing Alone Quotes

It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone.

But when you're different, you can last.

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.

How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.

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

The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer.

We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

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

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body.

He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone.

You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

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

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage.

All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

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

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

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

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.

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

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

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife.

I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong.

The person who's right often has to stand alone.

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods.

I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

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

More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.