Rectitude Quotes
34 quotes by 31 authors
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and…
— John F. Kerry
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To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the…
— Walt Whitman
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Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and…
— Baltasar Gracian
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The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
— Winston Churchill
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To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire…
— Orison Swett Marden
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A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt [the…
— George Washington
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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
— Date Masamune
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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating…
— Gary Taubes
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Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved…
— Origen
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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of…
— Judith Sargent Murray
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The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
— Christopher Hitchens
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Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I love the idea of rectitude.
— Rob Morrow
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For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
— Joe Klein
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The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
— Daniel Hannan
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Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude?…
— Pythagoras
Who Wrote These Rectitude Quotes
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