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• 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.

  Yogi Berra

  Loyalty, Teammate, Good And Bad

  Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

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• In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Order, Truly Happy

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• If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.

  Ginger Rogers

  Principles, Lessons, I've Learned

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• I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to that place of success in a positive light. We should take a stance and stand for something and use that platform for positivity.

  Misty Copeland

  Responsibility, Positivity, Thinking

  Source: bknation.org

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• As far as the persona, I'm true to myself. Not because I'm arrogant, but I'm true to myself because I believe that you have to stand for something. When you start sacrificing that, even if it's just a line in a song or something you say on the mic at a show, or the way you treat someone when you see them out in public, that all reflects on who you are.

  Cody Johnson

  Song, Believe, Sacrifice

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  If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

  Miranda Lambert

  Ifs

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• The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.

  Sargent Shriver

  Hope, Believe, America

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• The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

  Russ Feingold

  War, Iraq, Majority

  The Boston Globe, March 06, 2006.

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• Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

  John Madden

  Self Esteem, Humble, Sunset

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• I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Scary, Purpose

  "Evangelicals Face New Division: Global Warming". "All Things Considered" with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. March 25, 2007.

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• You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything
  You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

  Aaron Tippin

  Fall, Men, Puppets

  Song: You've Got To Stand For Something, Album: You've Got to Stand for Something, 1991

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• Art needs to stand for something.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Needs

  "Ai Weiwei: 'China's art world does not exist'". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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

  Blake Shelton

  People, Want

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• It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

  Russ Feingold

  Majority, Enough

  The Boston Globe, June 03, 2006.

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• 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.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Heart, Differences

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

  Grover Cleveland

  Use

  "An Honest President". Book by H. Paul Jeffers, 2000.

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• It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Believe, Values

  "Ice-cream icon Jerry Greenfield shares his top tips for business startups". Interview with Matthew Jenkin, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Mean, America

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• Customers must recognize that you stand for something.

  Howard Schultz

  Branding, Customers

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• You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fall, May Day, Mighty Oaks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But it's me taking a stand for something that means something. And it's for the fighters who are up and coming. It's sort of the same stance Martin Luther King and Malcolm X made, so we could have freedoms, so everybody could tell the world that we're equal. The only thing I'm saying is that we are equal. So if you're not on nothing and I'm not on nothing, then let's go take the test. That's all I'm saying.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Kings, Mean, World

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• You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Bigger, Something Bigger Than Yourself

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Add, Earth, Bigger

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.

  Tinie Tempah

  People, Listening, Together

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• Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

  Rand Paul

  People, Vote, Motivated

  "Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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