What Is Integrity?

What does it mean to say a person has integrity? In the simplest terms, integrity is the practice of being consistent in your moral principles. Notices that it’s the practice of your moral principles. To have integrity, your practice has to match your stated principles. That is, you are an undivided person, whole and complete in your ethics and morals.

Why is integrity important? Think about the fact that integrity means one is undivided. “A house divided among itself cannot stand.” “United we stand, divided we fall.” One can view the individual person in the same way. Our stated principles are…