A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm XRead
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
The sky is falling, the wind is calling_x000D_ _x000D_ Stand for something, or die in the morning
Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.
When you think of the blur of all the brands that are out there, the ones you believe in and the ones you remember, like Chanel and Armani, are the ones that stand for something. Fashion is about establishing an image that consumers can adapt to their own individuality. And it's an image that can change, that can evolve. It doesn't reinvent itself every two years.
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans are equal. Now, I dont necessarily feel I have to play for black people, because obviously theyre doing everything in all sports. If I can go out there and play for myself and not feel I have to stand for something other than what I want to do, thats good.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
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.
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