Quotes About Uprightness

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Be honorable, wherever you are, Bart. Do the right thing instead of the easy thing.

An honest person can be sold or purchased but never honesty

I'm definitely not a bad guy in real life.

I've got a real problem when I know something is wrong or I feel something is wrong, I'm going to speak about it. I get it from my mother.

When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. —1 John 3:7

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I'd recommend the high road to anybody. You wonder about it and you don't really appreciate it until you do it and you find that it worked for everyone. But I recommend it.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Those noble men who falsehood dread In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.