Sublime

Only act with Honourable Men. You can trust them and they you. Their honour is the best surety of their behaviour even in misunderstandings, for they always act having regard to what they are. Hence ‘tis better to have a dispute with honourable people than to have a victory over dishonourable ones.

The word integrity comes from the Latin word integer, which refers to a whole number, not a fraction. All integers are multiples of one whole number. To live with integrity means to live as one whole person, then— the same in public as in private.

Your behavior always expresses your values-in-action. Your integrity hinges on whether your values-in-action agree with your essential values. When they do, you feel pride. When they do not, you feel guilt. You can espouse lofty morals, but they are meaningless if they don’t guide your behavior.

find (or create) a number of opportunities to demonstrate both rational and emotional reliability, by making promises, explicit or implicit, and then delivering on them.

You are putting your integrity on the line. If you commit to taking care of the neighbor’s dog while they’re on vacation, and the neighbors come home to an unhappy pup, you have breached their trust.

It is about protecting your professional integrity, and in this regard, you should compare yourself to a therapist, doctor, lawyer, teacher or any other professional who needs to maintain strict integrity in relation to clients.

The proof of the sincerity and seriousness of a management is uncompromising emphasis on integrity of character.