Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

Live A Great Life
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human problems is a return to values. In many ways, your unhappi-
ness and stress are caused by your drifting away from doing and saying
the things that you know are right.
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INTEGRITY IS ESSENTIAL
The most important single quality for success is the quality of 
in-
tegrity
. Aristotle insisted that only a life based on values such as in-
tegrity, honesty, courage, generosity, persistence, and sincerity
would lead to happiness and personal fulfillment.
I used to think of integrity as only one of the key values, equal to
and separate from the others. Then one day a wise and wealthy man
pointed out to me that 
integrity is really the value that guarantees all
the others. Integrity is the foundation value on which all of your other val-
ues are based. Having true integrity means that you always live and act
consistently with your values. If you lack integrity, you will compromise
your other values at the slightest temptation.
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