William Bernbach Quotes

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.

I don't fight for much, but when I fight for something, it's usually because I think I'm going to be right.

If you stand for something, that means there are going to be people who support you and people who don't support you.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

If your values don't alienate anyone, it is just platitude.

You have to have enough conviction to stand for something. It doesn't matter if it's the opposing party or your own party.

If you strongly believe something is wrong, you must speak up and stand by what you say.

I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

There are always more people to prove wrong.

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against people's opinion.

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.