#righteous

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet! ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#being #dancing #feet #first #got

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#carrying #cause #effect #just #law

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. ↗

— Horace

#carvings #durable #foolish #like #quickly

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#going #i #i think #improvement #know

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#into #person #pours #puritan #righteous

I don't know if I'm so righteous. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#know #righteous

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. ↗

— Martin Luther

#fail #first #must #people #perform

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. ↗

— Frank Miller

#clowns #false #fed #harm #mob

When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It’s often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#self-righteousness #life

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#advance #boldly #done #endless #find