Integrity

Integrity

Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Integrity can be regarded as the opposite of hypocrisy, in that integrity regards internal consistency as a virtue, and suggests that parties holding apparently conflicting values should account for the discrepancy or alter their beliefs.

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Famous quotes containing the word integrity:

    The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To starve to death is a small thing, but to lose one’s integrity is a great one.
    Chinese proverb.

    I am sure that in estimating every man’s value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)