This quote suggests that having no principles or beliefs leaves one vulnerable to being influenced or swayed easily by others. By not standing up for something important, you may be more likely to accept whatever is presented to you, even if it may not align with your true values or interests.
This has been attributed to Malcom X, but I have found no definitive source verifying this. I believe this was said by Alexander Hamilton.
Aesop's famous quote is " I will not let it fall on it's own!"
General Patton
Oh, dude, that's a classic line! So, the first person to drop that wisdom bomb was Peter Marshall, a Scottish-American preacher back in the day. He was all about standing firm in your beliefs, so you don't get swept away by every passing fad. Like, it's pretty solid advice, you know?
it means that if you keep making excuses then you'll never get anything done or you'll fall at it
"If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything"The attributions to Alexander Hamilton are correct. A different version of the same point was said by Malcolm X hundreds of years later. Interestingly, he closely quoted Hamilton. On the other hand theOxford Dictionary of Quotations says that the British journalist Alex Hamilton said 'Those who stand for nothing fall for anything', in a 1978 radio broadcast which was subsequently transcribed in the journal The Listener. I suspect that the American Alexander Hamiltonhas had the credit for this quotation given to him through a very understandable confusion of names.In a 1997 court case which entirely hinged on the authorship of the line 'You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything', the defence showed that similar lines had been used by Peter Marshall in 1947 (as thenostromo noted above), by Ginger Rogers in 1978, by the British Alex Hamilton in the same year, and by unnamed writers to newspapers in 1989 and 1990; also that it had been ascribed to both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Despite the amount of research that must have gone into amassing those citations no mention was made of Alexander Hamilton. Doesn't that suggest that it's a misattribution, and one which was not yet common in 1997?"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground."is to believed to have been said by Rosa Parks (Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913 - 2005, African American civil rights activist) but not as the originator of the quotation
Yes, Malcolm X did like men. One of his famous quotes is that a man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
The cast of Whether I Stand or Fall - 2014 includes: Tika Peucelle
The motto is, "United WE stand, divided WE fall." The state is Kentucky.
Stand up again
It means either that something was base-less (there was nothing factual to base an opinion, etc., on) or else a person does not have anything else to fall back on. They were left helpless.It means "there's no way that what he's saying is right"
if there is nothing supporting you.