Why Taking A Standpoint Is The Way To Legendary Life Top Searches: Why Taking a Standpoint is the way to legendary life Add to Spiritual Diary There is no way to succeed, with your peace intact, other than through standpoints. A life without principles is the life of a ticketless traveller. Compromising on principles that you believe in will amount to prostituting the soul. If you don’t have something to stand for, you will fall for everything. The following are some of the sayings of Mahatma Gandhi, and in his case, he not only said it but also lived by it with every breath, unto his last breath.