Quotes About Upright Man

#1. People who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

John Hancock

#2. As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

E.B. White

#3. The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

Victor Hugo

#4. O evil man, leave the upright man alone and quit trying to cheat him out of his rights. Don't you know that this good man, though you trip him up seven times, will each time rise again? But one calamity is enough to lay you low.

Anonymous

#5. "Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."

Charles Spurgeon

#6. An upright man is always worth beholding - but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.

Thomas Watson

#7. Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.

Anthony Esolen

#9. For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

Aeschylus

#10. To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.

Victor Hugo

#11. He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man.

Anonymous

#12. Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Plato

#13. Upright, she's slapped with the aroma of musk and sweat. It's the good hunky, 'shirtless man building a dollhouse for his daughter' kind of perspiration, not the 'he just mowed the lawn' kind of stench.

Sandy Ward Bell

#14. No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

James Madison

#15. A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,
True but for lying,
honest but for stealing,
Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

John Harington

#16. The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector

Madeline Miller

#18. God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

Ovid

#19. No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times
in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Michel De Montaigne

#20. We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

Richard Leakey

#21. It is a strange pressure to be across from a man who wants something that you don't want to give. It's like standing in a forceful current, which at first you think is not too strong, but the longer you stand, the more tired you become, the harder it is to stay upright.

Stephanie Danler

#22. To call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".

Martin Luther

#23. The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

Confucius

#24. I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.

Jake Johnson

#25. In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years

Oscar Wilde

#26. The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

Robert Burns

#27. It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

#28. Do I dare disturb the universe?
Yes, I do, I do. I think.
Jerry suddenly understood the poster
the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.

Robert Cormier

#29. I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question
to be defended from the beginning to the end.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#30. It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

Jane Austen

#31. The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle

#32. A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Marcus Aurelius

#33. The quadriga was led by a young man, who stood upright, holding the bridles of the steeds, while the morning sun was shining behind his head!

Fabio Marzocca

#34. There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adler

#35. So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Alexander Pope

#36. To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

Kenzaburo Oe

#37. Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to.

Charles Dickens

#38. To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.

Victor Hugo

#39. A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

J.I. Packer

#40. I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright.

Eli Brown

#41. St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.

Pope John Paul II

#42. Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness ...

Martha Finley

#43. While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

Thomas Sankara

#44. What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright;

Thomas A Kempis

#45. What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

Erich Fromm

#46. Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.

Eric Ludy

#47. Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Viktor E. Frankl

#48. I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

E.B. White

#49. PSA37.37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Anonymous

#50. The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Charles Caleb Colton

#51. We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Lily Tomlin

#52. Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

Philemon

#53. We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright.

Viktor E. Frankl

#54. 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

#55. When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

Orison Swett Marden

#56. Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William Shenstone

#57. The man who knows of the universe of spirit walks upright, the materialist hugs the earth.

Frank Sheed

#58. This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#59. For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Plato

#60. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads

Ayn Rand

#61. The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Matthew Arnold

#62. There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog.
Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk.

Edward Abbey