Horace Greeley Quotes

Political courage is not political suicide.

Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

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.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

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

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

I don't fight for much, but when I fight for something, it's usually because I think I'm going to be right.

I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.

You have to stand on your beliefs.

If you strongly believe something is wrong, you must speak up and stand by what you say.

I'm going to stand in my truth no matter what.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.