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While both rich and poor did not stress the importance of the same words, they both stressed the importance of the word integrity. Both agreed that one of the definitions of integrity was the correlation between a person’s word and a person’s actions. Both said, listen to what a person say but, more importantly, watch what a person does.
If a person says, I will be there to pick you up at 7 am and the person picks you up at 7 am, then he or she is 100 percent in integrity at the moment. Their words and actions are whole. If a person says, I will picks you up at 7 am and that person never shows up, never calls and never apologizes then at that moment the person has 0 percent integrity. Their actions and their words do not match. Their words and their actions are not whole.
Dictionary’s definitions of the word integrity was the word whole or complete. He constantly said, you are only as good as your word. He constantly reminded his children about the importance of keeping one’s word. If your words ar no good then neither are you. Never make promises you do not plan to keep.
