In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune Copy Share Image
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your… — Celestine Sibley Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial,… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“What are palaces and equipages; what though a man could cover a continent with his title-deeds, or an ocean with his commerce;… — Brett McKay Copy Share Image
The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
