Upright Quotes

212 quotes by 181 authors

The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder.… — Ken Wilber
You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies… — Hermann Hesse
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements. — Mariella Frostrup
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction. — Spencer W. Kimball
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright. — Charles Spurgeon
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not… — Elwyn Brooks White
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between… — Seamus Heaney
Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and… — Confucius
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison.… — Chanakya
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the… — Ayn Rand
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart,… — Booker T. Washington
To show mercy is not naÃ¯ve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...… — Rick Yancey
In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows… — Benjamin Franklin
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten… — Pope John Paul II
PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through… — Beanie Sigel
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler,… — Benjamin Franklin
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. — Isaac Barrow
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into… — Billy Sunday
They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly. — Rick Barry
Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will… — Saint Augustine

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