Justin Cronin Quotes

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

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

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.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

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.

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

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

You have to do what you believe in.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

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

Political courage is not political suicide.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

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

I stand by what I believe in, I'm not afraid to speak up for what I think is right.

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

I'm not afraid of making big and sometimes unpopular calls if they're the right thing to do.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

I don't think you earn the right to a message until you've earned it by having a real fight, really being willing to stand up for what you believe in.