Ed Miliband Quotes

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

You have to stand on your beliefs.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

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

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your convictions.

Stay true to your values.

In life, you need some backbone. You need to stand for something.

Being a Deol for me is to be honest; walking with my head held high and never having to bow in front of injustice.

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.