Dave Ramsey Quotes

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I stand by what I believe in, I'm not afraid to speak up for what I think is right.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

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

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

The world is full of men who think and teach what is right. But as soon as they are called upon to act, they are assailed by doubts and fears.

Nothing deters a good man from what honor requires of him

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

You defend the truth no matter what.

In life, you need some backbone. You need to stand for something.

I'm a big person when it comes to doing what you believe in.

When I feel something isn't right, I'm going to speak my mind and stand even if it's by myself.

I want to be able to look back and say that I stood where I was supposed to stand. I fought where I was supposed to fight, in the ring and out of the ring.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's getting to a point where it's starting to get bad, I don't have to have the fear of, "Am I strong enough to see this through? Would I really make a stand here? Would I really quit over this issue?" And I know in my heart that there is a place where I would walk away. I don't have to make it about my ego. I don't have to make it about whether I'm being strong enough or tough enough.

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.