who you are matters more than what you do
Page 81 who you are matters more than what you do.
— from True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)
In the book
Mastering any of it rests on a few essential lessons learned early — compassion, forgiveness, ethics, and, of all things, humor — without which you stay trapped in a narrow view and can't turn your mistakes into anything useful. Integrity is the instrument working when no one is watching. Who you are matters more than what you do. At its heart, integrity is simply the making and keeping of commitments — the promises you make to others and to yourself — and that is the clearest evidence that a person is running their own life rather than reacting to it. — True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)
Sit with that last one. Because in the end, who you are matters more than what you do; for the ordinary person achievement is something you do, but for the rare one it becomes something you are. And here is the deepest test of that self, the one I most want you to keep. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)