Susana Martinez Quotes

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

Sometimes you pay a price for standing up.

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

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

Stand up for what you know is right.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I stand up for the things I believe in.

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.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

Political courage is not political suicide.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

A man must have guts enough to fall out even with his friends .... The only way to play politics is not to play politics.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

Giving children the sense that you always ought to speak up for what's right, even if it costs you something, that's something you can do.

Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone.

When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.