Rectitude Quotes
Rectitude Quote of the day
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
Samurai are born to die.Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.
The attitude of gratitude gives you the right rectitude and sound attitude towards life