Integrity

Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles as well as moral uprightness. Having personal integrity in my life is valuable because it is a virtue that assists my thinking though circumstances, allows me to make informed decision’s seeking the highest best for not only myself , but also of other’s in all of life’s situations as they arise.
Having personal integrity in my life is important because this quality helps me seek to demonstrate on a daily basis to be a dependable, honest and a responsible person that my family and friends can rely on. This in turn also helps my loved ones seek to have personal integrity and honesty in their lives as well. In the workforce it is equally important for me to have personal integrity demonstrated to my employers’ for recommendations to other job opportunities, that I can be trusted with their valuables and perform well on the job. All of this will contribute toward earning respect and trust from other’s and allow me to know that I have done my best and made sound moral decision’s. Integrity also shows whether you can be a trustworthy person or not which can decide how your life plays out. An example of this would be showing integrity through not lying about a situation or making excuses for a bad circumstance that was caused and could have been prevented. The Bible contains many teaching on the subject of integrity which shows that is has been used all throughout history and many great outcomes have turned out because of it.
One of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous quotes from “Self-Reliance” states, “insist on yourself; never imitate.” This states that you must be true to yourself and stand your ground by being an example toward others by showing your integrity and honesty. Another famous aphorism is said by Don Galer, “Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do,” revealing that integrity is not what others see but how we see and carry