Quotes about Rectitude

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

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best. The theater of all my actions is fallen, said an antique personage when his chief friend was dead, and they are fortunate who get a theater where the audience demands their best.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration: they bind us over to rectitude and purity by their pure belief about us; and our sins become that worst kind of sacrilege which tears down the invisible altar of trust. 'If you are not good, non is good'--those little words may give a terrific meaning to responsibility, may hold a vitriolic intensity for remorse.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration: they bind us over to rectitude and purity by their pure belief about us; and our sins become that worst kind of sacrilege which tears down the invisible altar of trust.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

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

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

Integrity gains strength by use.

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

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.