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Integrity Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. Job 27:5

What is Integrity? • Integrity is doing the right thing,

even if nobody is watching. • Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people—Spencer Johnson • Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do—Don Galer

Integrity by Janice Kapp Perry Integrity, a word so seldom understood. Integrity is doing all that’s right and good. It’s waking up to each new day And knowing that the words I say are true. It’s holding to the iron rod and Knowing all that I’ve been taught I’ll do. It’s listening to the still, small voice Whenever I must make a choice. It’s answering with an honest soul That I am true and clean and whole

Integrity by Janice Kapp Perry Integrity, a word so few have come to know, Integrity is heaven’s way to live and grow. It’s having strength to do my best Though I may have to face the test alone. It’s living for eternity by honoring those Within my earthly home. It’s knowing that our Father’s just, And I must earn His sacred trust. It’s guarding all I do and say, That I may live with Him some day.

Integrity by Janice Kapp Perry The love He has shown for me Keeps me in the narrow way. And there in His love I seem to find The strength to overcome, to say “Thy will be done.” To know integrity Will bring me peace of mind.

Dictionary Definition 1. Firm adherence to a code of

especially moral or artistic values: incorruptibility 2. An unimpaired condition: soundness 3. The quality or state of being complete or undivided: completeness Synonyms: see honesty

Selected Synonyms Honor • • Character • Completeness • Sincerity • Soundness • Decency • Virtue • Entireness • Wholeness • Honesty • Probity (adherence to the

highest principles and ideals: uprightness)

According to PIBS Exceeds Expecations: • Unfailingly honest in all activities and dealings with students, teachers, and school personnel • Giving her all in ensuring that there was not even any appearance of lack of integrity – i.e. receiving any credit for someone else’s work – i.e. misrepresenting something someone else said or did

Role Play—Problems in BYU Classes—Disagreement with Professor • Story of AP Biology • Story from Stripling Warrior and

Warriorettes Workout. • You look at your test and realize you were given a higher score than you deserved.

Role Play—Problems in BYU Classes—Disagreement with subject matter or content • Story of History movie in 8th grade • Your teacher asks you to watch or do something that you have previously chosen not to do.

Role Play—Disagreement with grade level team and/or administration • Example of my brothers getting my blame • You hear someone getting blamed for something you did wrong, whether or not you knew it was wrong at the time.

Role Play—Disagreement with Parents or Students • Story of Chemistry Test • A parent asks/bribes you to give a

student a better grade or recommendation than they deserve. • Remember— “A little integrity is better than any career”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

General Authority Quotes Church Magazine: Some would say you can’t live by a strict ethical code and do well in the business world. Can a person with integrity truly succeed? Elder Hales: Certainly, but you’d better be very good at what you do. Some of your associates will not understand your values and may resent you. Others will respect you for it. But individuals who are not ethical, who are selfish and greedy and hungry for power, will pay the price in the end

General Authority Quotes • To me, integrity means always doing what

is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts. Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.—Elder Wirthlin

Scriptures to Ponder • 2 Ne 2:27 • Alma 41: 14-15 • Articles of Faith 13 • Prov 12:22 • Eph 4:25 • 1 Tim 4:12 • Alma 53:20-21 • Phil 4:8

Sheri Dew It is a virtue that will ultimately make you or break you. It will make or break you as a husband or wife, father or mother, brother or sister, colleague or friend or leader. It will make or break your career. And most significantly, it will make or break your efforts to achieve exaltation. For it will define your relationship with God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. This is a virtue that every man or woman of God must come to possess in increasing degrees. It is a virtue found in every true follower of Jesus Christ.  It is the virtue of integrity.

Personal Progress Ideas • I will have the moral courage to make my

actions consistent with my knowledge of right and wrong. • Make your own standards. Write them down and commit to follow them. • Pray to have integrity. • Study the lives of scriptural heroes with integrity (Genesis 39, Esther, Daniel 3 and 6, Acts 26, D&C 124:15, Joseph Smith— History 1:21-25)

Other Great Integrity Quotes • Live so that when your children think of

fairness and integrity, they think of you— H. Jackson Brown Jr. • It times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity—Abraham Lincoln • Integrity has no need of rules—Alber Camus • No one will question your integrity if your integrity is not questionable—Nathaniel Bronner Jr.

References • Dew, Sheri. “True Blue, Through and Through.” 16 March, 2004. 9 September •

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2008 . Hales, Robert D. “Integrity and Values: A Discussion with Elder Robert D. Hales,” Ensign, Apr 2005, 46–49. 9 September 2008 . “Integrity." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008. Merriam-Webster Online. 9 September 2008 . “Integrity Quotes.” 8 Sept 2008 . “Integrity." Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.. 08 September 2008. . Perry, Janice Kapp. I Walk By Faith CD Cover. “Probity." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008. Merriam-Webster Online. 9 September 2008 . “Professional and Intrapersonal Behavior Rating Scale.” 9 September 2008 . Wirthlin, Joseph B. “Personal Integrity,” Ensign, May 1990, 30. 9 September 2008

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