integrity as we clearly identify our values and proactively…
Page 217 integrity as we clearly identify our values and proactively organize and execute around those values on a daily basis, we develop self-awareness and independent well by making and keeping meaningful promises and commitments. Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration.
— from True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)
In the book
Integrity is also something you practice. A small discipline that protects it: do not let anything pass your lips that you are not certain is completely true. Integrity is also active, not passive — it is identifying your values and then proactively organizing and executing around them every day, which is why maturity has been described as the balance between courage and consideration. Part of that maturity is the humility to recognize your own perceptual limits and to genuinely value the people who see differently, because their differences are exactly what fill the gaps in your own view. — True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)
You become what you repeatedly do — excellence is not an act but a habit — so if you want to be steadier, you must first act steadier; you can even, deliberately, behave as the person you wish to be until the behavior hardens into a self. Build your worth from the inside. Choose your core values on purpose — pick them, name them, write them down — and then organize and act around them, so that you become whole and undivided rather than at war with yourself, which is the real meaning of integrity. As a child you looked outside yourself to learn what to value; as an adult, the work is to decide for yourself. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)