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
All Standing Quotes
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
Max Baer 
90% of people like this quote
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff 
87% of people like this quote
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm 
85% of people like this quote
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 
84% of people like this quote
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton 
82% of people like this quote
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson 
80% of people like this quote
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy 
78% of people like this quote
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Austin O'Malley 
77% of people like this quote
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett 
73% of people like this quote
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb 
73% of people like this quote
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