Quotes About Upright

I'm responsible.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

siblings Scholl died as courageous and upright martyrs. Report of an eyewitness.

Good and upright is the LORD: therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. PSALM 25:8–9

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.

Everyone who is honest is interesting.

I wasn't going to say things just to get votes.

I do have a treadmill desk in my office, and for a while, I would walk on it while checking email and going through jokes. I haven't walked on it in probably four months. Now it's more of an upright dining table for me. At some point, moss will grow over it, birds will build nests, and nature will reclaim the treadmill as its own.

Ben Carson is an incredibly honest guy.

Man is timid and apologetic. He is no longer upright. He dares not say "I think", "I am" but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are, they exist with God to-day.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say I think, I am, but quotes some saint or safe.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you to show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike]. Matthew 5:44–45

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you [uncompromisingly] righteous [you who are upright and in right standing with Him]; shout for joy, all you upright in heart! Psalm 32:11

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.

At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction—it fascinated rather than repelled.

There is something in the universe that responds to brave, intrepid thought. The Power that holds and that moves the stars in their courses, fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and magic in it.

Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.

My father was a man's man and was always respected for being a straight shooter. My dad always had an amazing sense of calm about him.

I'm not a loser, I'm not a cheater.

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.