Lily Collins Quotes

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

I'm always for the person who speaks their mind.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

You always have to stand up for yourself.

For me, speaking my mind is a big part of my life, and I encourage other people to do that as well.

I can stand up for what I believe in. I don't take the word 'rebel' in a negative connotation.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think.

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.