Quotes About Rectitude

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one is watching.

the path of rectitude is a straight one, and that he who steps into devious byways is going astray.

he was usually preposterous yet somehow achieved a certain dignity by his remoteness and agelessness; he was still half-child, already half-veteran; there seemed no spark of contemporary life in him; he had a kind of massive rectitude and impermeability, an indifference to the world, which compelled respect.

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

Integrity gains strength by use.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

rectitude that was almost terrifying." When expounding on termination

Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!

My Mother was an excellent woman: She had instilled into my earliest youth, almost from infancy, notions of moral rectitude, and the first principles of Christianity; now rather ridiculed than inculcated in our youth of condition.

Virtue is not always amiable.

How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

Good men make good decisions.

I'm a good person and a good guy.

Conscience is, to the individual soul, and to society, what the law of gravitation is to the universe. It holds society together; it is the basis of all trust and confidence; it is the pillar of all moral rectitude. Without it, suspicion would take the place of trust; vice would be more than a match for virtue; men would prey upon each other, like the wild beasts of the desert; and earth would become a hell.

Being just may not always be easy but it's always required.

If it doesn't harm your character, how can it harm your life?

undeviating firmness in giving to every man according to his deserts;

Conviene, por consiguiente, mantenerse recto, no enderezado.

si con la rectitud debida obran de esa forma, no es razón que nos indignemos contra ellos; si no obran rectamente, es evidente que lo hacen sin libertad y por su ignorancia. Pues toda alma sólo de mal grado se priva tanto de la verdad como del conocimiento con que debe conducirse con cada uno según su valor. Por eso, llevan con impaciencia el oírse llamar injustos, ingratos, avaros, y, en una palabra, propensos a faltar contra su prójimo.

Que la divinidad que está en ti sea guía de un ser varonil, respetable, social, romano, de un jefe que se coloca en su puesto como alguien que, liberado, esperara el toque de retreta para escapar de la vida, sin necesidad de un juramento ni de ningún hombre como testigo[213]. Por dentro, radiante[214] sin necesidad de servidumbre o tranquilidad exteriores. Hay que ser recto, no corregido.

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.