Quotes About Uprightness

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Use discipline to build character and conscience, not enemies.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.

Developing and maintaining integrity require constant attention. John Weston, chairman and CEO of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., says, "I`ve always tried to live with the following simple rule: Don`t do what you wouldn`t feel comfortable reading about in the newspapers the next day." That`s a good standard all of us should keep.

La integridad no es tanto lo que hacemos sino lo que somos. Y lo que somos, a su vez, determina lo que hacemos.

Give me nothing if not honesty. I don't want it and won't have it any other way!

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

What is dignity without honesty?

The end of education is character

I don't do lies!

I'm not a malicious person.

That's the mark of a man, just keeping your head up, right? Not taking the easy way out.

In the context of ten thousand years, I thought, what did Filmer and his sins matter? Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long, ever-recurring battle.

Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting.

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

The definition of integrity is this: Being what I say I am by acting in accordance with my words.

Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.