Uprightness Quotes

23 Uprightness quotes by 19 unique authors

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
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
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
Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord. — John Climacus
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
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. — George Henry Lewes
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom. — Democritus
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
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
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
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life. — Confucius
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
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
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
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
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. — Confucius
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
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles
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
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
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons. — Khalil Gibran
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they… — Aristophanes

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