Quotes About Upright

I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.

The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Nagin is a decent man

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

Miraculously, though, the same coral heads that split the ship's sides held the wounded vessel fast, upright as if she were in the jaws of a vise.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us standing upright.

Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by that chaste, upright, inflexible and candid nature.

To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.

To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.

The souls of the upright in sleep have vision of a mysterious heaven.

She wanted to daydream, pretend that her world was upright instead of fallen on its side;

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

a surge of grief, I, who had never known men, as I stood in front of this man who had wanted to overcome fear and despair to enter eternity upright and furious.

And the higher he lifts his thoughts, the extra manly, upright, and righteous he turns into, the greater can be his success, the more blessed and enduring could be his achievements.

Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.

How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .