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

• Character • Honor
• Completeness • Sincerity
• Decency • Soundness
• Entireness • Virtue
• Honesty • Wholeness
• 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
2008
<http://www.byui.edu/Presentations/Transcripts/Devotionals/2004_03_16_Dew.htm
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• Hales, Robert D. “Integrity and Values: A Discussion with Elder Robert D. Hales,”
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http://thesaurus.reference .com/browse/integrity>.
• Perry, Janice Kapp. I Walk By Faith CD Cover.
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