Quotes About Rectitude

A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity.

Allison was a born conformer, a person who believed in doing the "right thing," being responsible, not making too many waves.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

You can go a long way with some integrity.

And somehow, somewhere along the track, I went numb. I couldn't say what it was & didn't dare try. How do you explain the sense of being made to feel improper ? I withdrew into a watchful rectitude, anxious to please, risking nothing. I followed the outline of my life, carefully rehearsing form without conviction, like a bishop who can't see that his faith has become an act.

Dead human beings provided retrospective arguments for the rectitude of policy. Hitler and Stalin thus shared a certain politics of tyranny: they brought about catastrophes, blamed the enemy of their choice, and then used the death of millions to make the case that their policies were necessary or desirable. Each of them had a transformative utopia, a group to be blamed when its realization proved impossible, and then a policy of mass murder that could be proclaimed as a kind of ersatz victory.

Man must have light. He must live in the fierce full constant glare of light, where all shadow will be defined and sharp and unique and personal: the shadow of his own singular rectitude or baseness. All human evils have to come out of obscurity and darkness, where there is nothing to dog man constantly with the shape of his own deformity.

Upright and do right make all right.

Upright and do right makes all right.

Utmost integrity is key.

Character is something you do when no one else is watching.

Long ago she had learned that to seem to yield is always stronger than to show resistance, and to acknowledge a fault quickly is always to show an invincible rectitude.

The only guide to a man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

She had the rectitude, Joe Hill Conley later said, of someone who had just come from weeping in the next room.

The attitude of gratitude gives you the right rectitude and sound attitude towards life

If one does not have these five things there is no good in him: intellect, religion, etiquette, shame and good manners.

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

Make things right?" I asked. "Where did you learn that one?" "From Mr. Carpenter," she said. "He says making things right is the first and last thing you should do every day. And that it's what you always try to do.

Your attitude is a multitude of aptitude and rectitude which decides your altitude in plenitude.

A mind aware of its own rectitude.

He who is merely just is severe.

Integrity is the core of our character.

Every wrong should be made right, and no right should be forgotten.