Tom Selleck Quotes

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

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.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

If you've been around for thirty years posing moral judgments on politics and society, you've got to take a stand. You can't go waving your wooden sword forever.

If my doing the right thing will cost me my seat, they can take this job and shove it.

I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

I'm not going to be bullied into not doing what I think is right.

There are only a few times in a man's life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.

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

My grandfather, my grandmother especially, I have a whole family of activists, they've always told me to stand up for what I believe in.

I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

I think I always stand up for what I believe in.

What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.

If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.

It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young person has to do and the only way you can do it is if you're willing to walk out the door if he doesn't take your advice. Or if you're willing to walk out the door if he goes over the line.

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.