Sarah Drew Quotes

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

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

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

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.

The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you be complacent or go with the flow or wonder what to do. You must decide now which path you will follow and which answer you will give. Decide well in advance, before the pressure is on, what you stand for.

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

I do what I believe.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

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

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.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.

I stand for what's right. That's the bottom line. I call it like I see it.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

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.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

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.