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Quotes About Upright

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
~ Victor Hugo
go upright among those who are down on their knees those with their backs turned those toppled in the dust you have survived not so that you might live you have little time you must give testimony be courageous when reason fails you be courageous in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts and your helpless Anger - may it be like the sea whenever you hear the voice of the insulted and beaten
~ Zbigniew Herbert
I am fully persuaded that, out of his business, he is the most loyal and upright soul in Paris. There are two men in him; he is petty and great — a miser and a philosopher. If I were to die and leave a family behind me, he would be the guardian whom I should appoint. This was how I came to see Gobseck in this light, monsieur. I know nothing of his past life.
~ Honore de Balzac
Even in darkness, light dawns for the upright.' That is you now. Let your light shine here in Rock Harbor.
~ Colleen Coble
I shall set down in a few lines how upright Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Meet resentment with upright dealing and meet inner power with inner power.
~ Confucius
Let us honor if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
~ W. H. Auden
Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
~ William Shakespeare
Such was the end of our comrade, Echecrates, a man who, we would say, was of all those we have known the best, and also the wisest and the most upright.
~ Plato
The man stands taller and lifts his chin as if posing as Mr. April for a calendar of righteous citizens.
~ Dean Koontz
There's not the slightest blemish on his reputation. He's an enlightened progressive lawman
~ Dean Koontz
Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
I'm not a virtue signaler.
~ Charlie Baker
I am known for always playing virtuous characters.
~ John Kani
walked erect out of my sleep
~ Lucille Clifton
I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.
~ Mark Hunt
I am not a manipulative person.
~ Kashmira Shah
Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright. -Job 33:23
~ Jack Canfield
SIR CHARLES is an upright, well-groomed, grey-moustached, red-faced man of sixty-seven, with a keen eye for molehills, and none at all for mountains.
~ John Galsworthy
And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st. Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sattest brooding on the vast abyss, And madst it pregnant.
~ John Milton
Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT
~ John Paul Warren
Be thou erect, or be made erect.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.
~ Peter Høeg
We got new advice as to what motivated man to walk upright: to free his hands for masturbation.
~ Jane Wagner