Uprightness Quotes

• If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

  George Muller

  Prayer, Mistake, Heart

  George Muller (2015). “Answers to Prayer”, p.1, Letcetera Publishing

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• Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Book, Delight

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

  Confucius

  Life, Men, Lucky

  Analects ch. 6, v. 17 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

  Georg Brandes

  Kindness, Brutality, Goodness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

  Branch Rickey

  Courage, Children, Want

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• Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Happiness, Design, Faithful

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• Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heaven, Decision, Oracles

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

  Confucius

  Love, Strong, Learning

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• National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

  Samuel Smiles

  Selfish, Individuality, Progress

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.16

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• Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

  Democritus

  Mean, Men, Finding Happiness

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• Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  John Climacus

  Faith, Jesus, Fighting

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• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  John Hancock

  Respect, Honesty, Men

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• In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give you a humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of people, or the iniquity of the times may rob you of other rewards.

  Babe Paley

  Disappointment, Integrity, Humble

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• Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

  Anne Catherine Emmerich

  Heart, Men, Saint

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• God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

  John Ruskin

  God, Hurt, Law

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.37

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• We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and it is easy to find ourselves aiming for the result rather than the cause. Let us aim for joy, rather than respectability. Let us make fools of ourselves from time to time, and thus see ourselves, for a moment, as the all-wise God sees us.

  Philip Neri

  Wise, Self, Joy

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• Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Existence, Righteousness, Impress

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Sleep, Men, Empathy

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• "Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Ethical Principles, Law, Moral

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Grace, Oracles, Reason

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.335, Penguin

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• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Honesty, Philosophy, Farewell

  "Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

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• God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Godly, Understanding, Mind

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). “Thoughts that breathe”

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• For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

  Plato

  Men, Evil, Religion

  Plato (1934). “The Laws of Plato”

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