Real integrity is doing the right thing – Oprah Winfrey

Real integrity is doing the right thing: Integrity is a beautiful word – it tells us that we are true to ourselves. But often, people confuse it to think that it is what people think about them. This is the difference between reputation and character. Integrity is at the core of who we are and it means that sometimes taking an opposite view to the rest of the world

Real integrity is doing the right thing

Doing the right thing is up to us. This doesn’t require an accolade or recognition. All we need to do is dig deep and find out what the right thing is. We all know the answer to this. The question to ask is – what is the right thing to do. It is not about what we get or how others perceive us. But real integrity is doing the right thing even if it means sometimes we lose something precious.

What is integrity?

Integrity, humility, character, personality – They all sound such great words don’t they? In each of these words, lie as undertones the true definitions and depths that we all have lived at some part of our lives, maybe knowingly or unknowingly, maybe to make a difference, maybe to make a statement to the world or maybe to tell ourselves that we definitely are much bigger than what we think. No matter what reason we have done it with, we all have stood up to these at some point in our lives and it does feel beautiful.

I am not advocating that we shouldn’t take the credit for the hard work we have done. We most certainly should, it has taken our hard work, our sweat and so many emotions that have gone through in making that one thing happen. But there certainly are some simple things in our lives which we can afford to do, maybe that is what defines character.

Even if no one is going to know whether you did it or not

It is sometimes very easy to do something knowing that the outside world expects it, sometimes it makes our life very easy making very clear as to what the outcome should be. But there are also those situations where it is not clear, where no one is going to know what decisions we took, no one is going to know how much we strived to make it happen and we very much knew that as well.

But even then we did get that energy, the surge to do that something, that something which never promised us anything but it gave us an outcome much bigger than all of those, an acknowledgement, a sense of true accomplishment and a pat on the back saying we are who we are and the one beautiful smile which says it all

References:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/integrity