INTEGRITY

Definition of Integrity:
The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.

Synonyms of Integrity:
Honesty, uprightness, honourable, upstanding, good character, right-mindedness, trustworthy, etc.

These notes are from recovery in AA and/or related 12 step programs. Readers are encouraged to click external links for more detail. We hope you find them helpful.

Love in fellowship.

The benefit of a spiritual program is the development of integrity in my life. Integrity is having an honest respect for myself; it is respecting who I am and how I live in the world.

Integrity also becomes a bridge by which I can reach my fellow man. My respect for my life develops a respect for others.

My determination to have integrity affects the way I treat you. Integrity gives me freedom to be — and this allows for an acceptance of you.

Today I can be flexible with me and this means that I can be flexible with you. My past need to control has developed into an accepting serenity that brings peace. –Father Leo | More…   

In A.A. alcoholics find a way to solve their personality problems, when they face the facts instead of making excuses for themselves. –24Hours | More…

Integrity is having an honest respect for myself; it is respecting who I am and how I live in the world. Integrity also becomes a bridge by which I can reach my fellow man.

Integrity gives me freedom to be — and this allows for an acceptance of you. –Father Leo | More…

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. –Stephen Covey

If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. –Henry Kravis