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Quotes About Uprightness

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I do play nice guys. I really do.
~ William Fichtner
imposible encontrar a doce hombres, honrados
~ Noah Gordon
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
~ Cicero
The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.
~ Laura Fraser
Honesty wins the day" is one of my favorite made-up mantras, and I needed it then.
~ Laura Fredricks
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.
~ Charles Dickens
If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked.
~ Charles Dickens
Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
~ Charles Dickens
It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
~ Grover Cleveland
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous.
~ James Patterson
The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life's winds blow against you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.
~ Martin Landau
I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.
~ Thomas Hughes
Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
~ Thomas Jefferson
we shall acquit ourselves with honor, that we may never bring shame upon our faith, our families, or our fellow men.
~ Oliver North
Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.
~ Oprah Winfrey
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low.
~ Orison Swett Marden
If the will be set on virtue, there will be no practice of wickedness.
~ Confucius
My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it.
~ Cormac MacCarthy