personal integrity
Living your principles
Personal integrity is the quality of adhering to one's moral principles even when it's difficult or costly to do so.
It implies consistency between beliefs and actions—someone with personal integrity doesn't compromise their values for convenience, approval, or gain.
She showed personal integrity by refusing the bribe, even though it meant losing the contract.
The phrase emphasizes individual accountability rather than externally imposed standards.
- honestyTruthfulness, sincerity
- true to oneselfFaithful to personal values
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- trustworthinessQuality of being reliable
reliability · accountability · sincerity · conscience · clean conscience · doing the right thing · honor · transparency · wholeness · moral fiber · uprightness · moral compass · code of ethics · backbone · autonomy · principles · truthfulness · straight shooter
- respectrespect, admiration, esteem, regard, reverence
- ethicsmorality, deontology, dignity, sanctity of life, utilitarianism
- moral educationmoral education, moral instruction, character education, moral development, moral lessons
- TranscendentalismTranscendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Walden Pond
personal integrityhypocrisy
Pretense of virtue
duplicity · double standards · two-facedness · phoniness · insincerity
personal integritydishonesty
Disposition toward falsehood
mendacity · fraudulence · treachery · lying · bad faith
personal integritymoral corruption
Degradation of ethical principles
depravity · dishonor · unscrupulousness · corruption · immorality