Top Standing Quotes
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
Max Baer
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
Rosalind Russell 
Ed Bradley 
Marilyn Manson 
Woody Guthrie 
Elmer Rice 
Black Elk 
Edward Everett 
Ibrahim Rugova All Standing Quotes
I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
Burt Bacharach 
38% of people like this quote
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
Richard M. Hunt
38% of people like this quote
Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Mitch Hedberg
37% of people like this quote
It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
Ornette Coleman
37% of people like this quote
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway
37% of people like this quote
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Edward W. Howe
36% of people like this quote
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
34% of people like this quote
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
Doug Larson
34% of people like this quote
Popular Standing Authors
Marcus Tullius CiceroThomas JeffersonH. L. MenckenJohn F. KennedyBarack ObamaGertrude SteinEdmund BurkeSteven WrightArthur SchopenhauerErnest HemingwayFranklin D. RooseveltWilliam BlakeEleanor RooseveltGustave FlaubertJim Carrey
Mitch HedbergMargaret ThatcherGeorge CarlinBen KingsleyJohn Stuart MillLaurence J. PeterAnne TylerHenry RollinsSarah PalinRobert WyattKevin CostnerOgden NashWentworth MillerCharles KetteringLawrence Welk
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