Quotes About Uprightness

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

My mother taught me right and wrong, and the right is the only way to go.

I try to do things the right way.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

The high road is the only road I know.

Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest

I seldom lie,' he said.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

I'm pretty nice. I'm far from an ax murderer. I've never been mean to anyone in my life.

I'm not a bad man.

I gotta be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm being honest.

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

The right thing is to keep the right thing the right thing.

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

I try to be as honest as I can and that's the best way to do things.

I've never been a bad boy.

I've never attempted or even tried or will ever throw anyone under the bus. That's just not me. I don't do that.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Honesty in itself is one of life's rarest gifts

CHAP. XIX. The Duke Ai asked, saying, 'What should be done in order to secure the submission of the people?' Confucius replied, 'Advance the upright and set aside the crooked, then the people will submit. Advance the crooked and set aside the upright, then the people will not submit.