Porter Robinson Quotes

The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.

For me, leadership is tied to self-knowledge. The examined life has become one of my ideals. To lead a people, you have to know who you are, where you come from, what you believe and why, what you're prepared to fight for or even die for, where you draw your strength, why and how you share yourself, and finally, where you would want to take the nation.

Give us a clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—because unless we stand for something we will fall for anything.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

Stick to your true north - build greatness for the long term.

The personal mission statement was important for me because I believe that you can't lead others unless you have a strong sense of who you are and what you stand for.

I have to stay true to who I am.

I know who I am and what I want to say and what I'm supposed to sound like.

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

I was always taught to be myself, be honest, and be true to my roots.

Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.

You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

I'm destined to live and say things.

I'm a people pleaser by nature, and I want to make everybody happy. But at the same time, it's not fulfilling to make everybody happy. What's fulfilling is to stand for something that's right. Now that doesn't mean you're going to be perfect. We're going to fall and we're going to mess up every day, but we can at least try to stand for something. When you stand for something, then you won't fall for everything else around you.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.

You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”