What is your definition of Integrity?

Question

i would be intersted in hearing your personal definition in your own words.

Answer 1

Doing the "right thing" even when no one is watching or when no one is going to acknowledge it.

Answer 2

Integrity is keeping or living up to one's word regardless of the cost. If one's word is given, it's kept -- even when it becomes inconvenient or even costly somehow. If I said I'd have it ready for you this morning, but then got asked to babysit in an emergency and didn't get home until 11:30 last night, I still need to have it ready for you this morning even if it means I lose a little sleep doing it. That's true integrity. It's not circumstantial or convenience-driven. It means I do not come first. I put keeping my word ahead of my own likes and convenience. If I sell you something and say it's in good working order, you know it'll be in good working order. Integrity is the ultimate trustworthiness. It means my word is good.

Answer 3

I have been playing around with this overused and misunderstood word. It seems politicians, ministers and other respected adults are struggling with this nine-letter word. What plagues me about this word is what it seems to demand from each of us. I may sound as if I am trying to be an overly analytical adolescent, but I am not. Maybe I would be better described as a cynical teenager making fun of all the adults who are trying to shove this nine-letter word down our throats. I am not angry, but I am going to be in your face about why adults don't practice what they preach.

Integrity means honesty, virtue, honor, morality, principle, uprightness, righteousness and goodness. That's a heavy order for anyone, and most adults talk out of both sides of their mouths when they accuse my generation of not having integrity.

Answer 4

stable question! The word integrity has been ingrained in my head by way of fact childhood. Having integrity became defined with the help of consistently doing the "precise ingredient", based upon your value device, and on no account taking the easy way out. Being depended directly to do a stable job devoid of supervision. a guy that had "integrity" must be taken at his word. thank you mom and pa....

Answer 5

By using my own words, huh? Integrity is a human characteristic that is measured by how much a person can withstand before letting go of his beliefs, morale and everything else that is solely his.The more the person can withstand, the more integrity the person has

Answer 6

It is doing the right thing even in difficult circumstances. When I think of integrity, I think of the virtue of honesty mainly. Really, when I hear "integrity" I think of my Dad! He has integrity in his business. He is always honest and fair.

Answer 7

Integrity--the commitment to make each situation better than it was before, and the will to carry this out.

Answer 8

There are certain boundaries a person sets and does not cross.

Whether this is what they say, do, or a circumstance that they are willing to be in.

It is better to leave or vacate (take a vacation) than to compromise that which is moral. (here: moral = truth or correct)

Answer 9

very close to being truthful to yourself.
in another word - truthfulness.

Truthfulness Benevolence Forbearance
(the characteristic and guiding principle of the universe, the cultivation of Falun Dafa)

Answer 10

Good for their word, strives to be honest and fair, is not always 'on the make' to beat someone out of some money.