Quotes About Uprightness

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Most important is be a good man.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Only men of character are trusted.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright;

Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The mind stands upright when it is humbly submitted to God. For each thing exists to a higher and more noble state to the extent it stands firm in what perfects it more.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.