Quotes about Rectitude
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
— CS Lewis
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
— Winston Churchill
The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
— Confucius
One never does wrong by doing right.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.
— John Maxwell
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— Mary Connealy
Nor is it only in prophane history that instances like these are to be found, of persons committing the greatest crimes with a sincere conviction of the rectitude of their conduct. Scripture will afford us parallels; and it was surely to guard us against the very error which we have been now exposing, that our blessed Saviour forewarned his disciples: "The time cometh, that whosoever [Pg 13] killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
— William Wilberforce
Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
— Brian Tracy
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
— Jeremiah 7:5
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
— Henry Ward Beecher