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Quotes About Uprightness

or else it wouldn't be truthful and square for the others.
~ Mark Twain
Do right and you will be conspicuous.
~ Mark Twain
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
~ Ayn Rand
Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.
~ Stephen King
Stand and be true
~ Stephen King
Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.
~ Iván Fernández Anaya
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
~ Confucius
Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
~ Balian of Ibelin
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln
~ Jon Gordon
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln sixteenth
~ Jon Gordon
There are failings to which intensely religious people are sometimes prone, namely, indifference to the injustices of society, a willingness to overlook corruption within their own ranks, and a tendency to believe that attachment to God relieves one of the duty to be upright, civil, and gracious in one's dealings with human beings.
~ Jonathan Sacks
There's something about honesty...A chap's got to be honest. Never forget it all thy entire life. And there's a funny thing about honesty...No two ways about it; there's only one way about it....(Father to son, Joe)
~ Eric Knight
And there's a funny thing about honesty; there's no two ways about it. There's only one way about it. Honest is honest.
~ Eric Knight
An empty bag cannot stand upright.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
~ Benjamin Franklin
nothing was useful which was not honest.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.
~ Benjamin Franklin
several of us were corrected by our fathers; and though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Franklin's Note.—Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.
~ Benjamin Franklin
no qualities were so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you're an honest person, it reflects on the screen.
~ Vatsal Sheth
I refuse to lie to children.
~ Maurice Sendak