Rectitude Quotes
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Rectitude Quotes & Sayings
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The city fathers discredited themselves with their silly exercise in extreme social rectitude.
— Mel Gordon
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
— Peter Drucker
Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour, Benevolence
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
— Christopher Morley
Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties ... broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
— Pliny The Younger
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
— Daniel Hannan
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
— Date Masamune
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.
— Richard M. Weaver
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Oh fuck. I shouldn't have said that.
— Sophie Kinsella
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
— Christopher Hitchens
His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.
— Siri Hustvedt
Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
— Bill Vaughan
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? — Richard Dawkins
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it? — Richard Dawkins
I love the idea of rectitude.
— Rob Morrow
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
— Winston Churchill
Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.
— George Eliot
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. — Rick Remender
Death is not a curse to be avoided
but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal ... dishonor is. — Rick Remender
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
— Herbert Read
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
— Fred Alan Wolf
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— Thomas Aquinas