Upright Behavior Quotes

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

A good character is the best tombstone.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.