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 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
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction… — William Ellery Channing 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
A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude. — Joe Klein 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
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
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. — Herbert Read 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
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
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
“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
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
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
Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges,… — Grover Cleveland 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
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
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune 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
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
