Quotes about Uprightness
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
- Thomas Monson
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
- George Washington
The best of all lost arts is honesty.
- Mark Twain
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
- Cicero
Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
- Charles Dickens
Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.
- Mark Twain
I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.
- Judith Durham
We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.
- DL Moody
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
- Gordon Hinckley
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
- Thomas Watson
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
- Zig Ziglar
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower