Malcolm X Quotes

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

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

In life, you need some backbone. You need to stand for something.

You have to stand by your beliefs.

I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.

I stand firm in what I believe in.

People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.

You stand up for what you believe in.

You have to stick to your principles and when you believe in something, to fight for it.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

One man with beliefs is equal to a thousand with only interests.

Give us a clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—because unless we stand for something we will fall for anything.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

You have to stand for the things that you believe in. You have to stay strong inside.

You have to believe in something strongly enough that you would lose your seat over it.

When you just stand for something, you kind of stand for it.

I've stuck by my beliefs, I'm not going to change.