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Integrity Is The Factor That Determines Which One Will Prevail. We Struggle Daily With Situations That Demand Decisions Between What We Want To Do And What We Ought To Do. Integrity Establishes The Ground Rules For Resolving These Tensions. It Determines Who We Are And How We Will Respond Before The Conflict Even Appears. Integrity Welds What We Say, Think, And Do, Into A Whole Person So That Permission Is Never Granted For One Of These To Be Out Of Sync.

-John C. Maxwell

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Integrity Is The Factor

John C. Maxwell

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Integrity Is The Factor That Determines Which One Will Prevail. We Struggle Daily With Situations That Demand Decisions Between What We Want To Do And What We Ought To Do. Integrity Establishes The Ground Rules For Resolving These Tensions. It Determines Who We Are And How We Will Respond Before The Conflict Even Appears. Integrity Welds What We Say, Think, And Do, Into A Whole Person So That Permission Is Never Granted For One Of These To Be Out Of Sync.

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