Uprightness Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
— Georg Brandes
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Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect…
— Anne Catherine Emmerich
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In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments,…
— Babe Paley
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Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.
— John Climacus
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I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to…
— Victor Hugo
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
— George Henry Lewes
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Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
— Democritus
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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons…
— Plato
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When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is,…
— Rudolf Steiner
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We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and…
— Philip Neri
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Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
— Confucius
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Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of…
— Confucius
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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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Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
— Confucius
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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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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
— Samuel Smiles
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If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred…
— George Muller
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil…
— Branch Rickey
Who Wrote These Uprightness Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Uprightness Quotes as follows: