Top 346 Upright Quotes & Sayings

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.

I get roles where I'm the activist type or I'm always morally upright.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

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

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

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

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

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

Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend - or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.

The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

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

There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

The roles that I get offered are very good and of serious women who are morally upright, righteous and honest.

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

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

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

As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

A disciplined and morally upright nation is built by disciplined and morally upright institutions.

I had an upright - it took me years and years to get enough bread to get it. I'm from Florida, so one morning I woke up, go in the corner, and the bass is in a hundred pieces 'cause the humidity is so bad. I mean, the upright just blew up. I said, 'Forget it, man. I can't afford this anymore.'

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.

Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!

I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.

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