Quotes About Rectitude

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As down the centuries, a few men stand in lonely rectitude that we may look and say, there is a human race behind us.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

God is a moral being, a being in whom justice, rectitude, goodness reign supreme. He has made man a moral being, and wound his nature up with the same moral weights that move is own divine life.

It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.

no qualities were so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

Why am I telling you all this? Because of course it might explain if not excuse her enormous desire that Tom should not endure so confused a life as hers, and was a slave to her own ideas of rectitude, as only a person who thinks they have fallen can be.

Hot damn, look at him go! I am proud, proud to know that our great nation is being steered by men of such exceptional energy and passion. Not to mention rectitude.

The reach of federal criminal statutes was troubling to Joselyn. They had become so broad that they virtually mimicked every state crime. The protection of double jeopardy had become a joke. If a defendant was acquitted at the state level, but the crime violated notions of political rectitude, the defendant would be tried again at the federal level. This was now done routinely in high-profile cases where political points could be made by a president or his attorney general. While

I love the idea of rectitude.

probity of your actions should anyone try to put you in a compromising position.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Sing a hymn to rectitude, Ye forward-thinking multitude. Advance in humble gratitude For strictest rules of attitude. To elevate the Common Good In Brotherhood and Sisterhood We celebrate authority. Fraternity, Sorority, United, pressing onward, we Restrict the ills of liberty. There is no numinosity Like Power's generosity In helping curb atrocity. Bear down on the rod and foil the child.

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

His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.

You have to have integrity.

I'm big on integrity.

The compleat gentleman's rectitude does not prohibit him from having a sense of humor. His Stoic sense of life and his urbane education ought to give him wit.

Y es que en la Tierra, el ejemplo es la ligazón más fuerte entre los hombres; toda acción despierta en los demás la voluntad de actuar con rectitud, de salir del sopor de la somnolencia y de llenar las horas de actividad.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

I was lucky enough to be raised by a man of great integrity and rectitude. That said, he was also human and had his secret sins, as we all do.

Integrity never goes out of style.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.