Dallas Willard Quotes

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

Aren't we supposed to be standing for something instead of falling for everything?

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

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.

Stand up for what you know is right.

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

I stand up for the things I believe in.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

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

It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon it.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way.

For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.