Pavel Durov Quotes

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.

Stand up for what you know is right.

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

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

People realized that I'm willing to stand up for things that I believe in, despite the political consequences and overwhelming pressure.

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.

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

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

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

Oftentimes the easy decision and comfortable decision is not the right one.

It's not easy to do the unpopular thing.

Work hard at doing what you feel is right. Don't be scared!

I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.