Integrity

Integrity is living by your highest values. It is being honest and sincere. Integrity helps you listen to your conscience, to do the right thing, because it’s the right thing to do. You act with integrity when your words and actions match by being faithful to our moral conscience, keeping our word, and standing up for what we believe in.

Kindness

Kindness is a personal quality that enables a person to be sensitive to the needs of others and to take personal action to endeavor to meet those needs. It is more than being nice and agreeable. It is a quality of one’s being, not just a matter of a person’s behavior.

Charity

Charity is a giving heart, a generous way of viewing others and caring for their needs. Unless we are charitable, no matter how much excellence we acquire, it is without purpose. Charity is done without expecting something in return.  The virtue of Charity means being generous with our presence, time, and money.  Charity springs from compassion for the suffering of others, even those we don’t know.

Respect

Respect is honoring the worth or dignity in a person or process. When we respect others, we take their preferences and ideas seriously.  Respect is merited through knowledge, insight, and wisdom, which are often hard won through a lifetime of discipline and learning.  It means that we recognize the basic human dignity of others, even when their ideas or values are different than our own. A general attitude of respect assumes that each person has something to teach us if we are willing to learn.

Honesty

Honesty is being truthful and sincere. It is important because it builds trust.  When people are honest, they can be relied on not to lie, cheat, or steal.  Being honest means that you accept yourself as who you are.  When you are open and trustworthy, others can believe in you.

Responsibility

Responsibility means others can trust you to do things with excellence. You accept accountability for your actions. When you make a mistake, you offer amends instead of excuses. Responsibility is the ability to respond ably and to make smart choices.  It means being dependable, keeping promises and honoring our commitments.

Service to Humanity

Service is giving to others and making a difference in their lives. You consider their needs as important as your own. Be helpful without waiting to be asked.  When you act with a spirit of service, you can change the world.

Leadership

Leadership is a system in which the virtues of prudence, wisdom, courage, self-control and justice constitute the foundations of leadership, and the virtues of humanity, generosity and humility constitute its essence.  Leadership captures the essentials of being able and prepared to inspire others.

Wisdom

The ancient Greeks considered wisdom to be the master virtue, the one that directs all the others. Wisdom is good judgment. It enables us to make reasoned decisions that are both good for us and good for others. Wisdom tells us how to put the other virtues into practice. Wisdom enables us to discern correctly, to see what is truly important in life, and to set priorities

Honor

At its simplest, honor is the good opinion of the people who matter to us, and who matter because we regard them as a society of equals who have the power to judge our behavior.  Honor is defined as esteem paid to worth and is associated with reverence, dignity, distinction, reputation, good name, and a good sense of what is right, just, and true. The key part to honor is having respect for others and for yourself, the two must act together because without both you have nothing.  Reputation is hard to gain and easy to lose.

Dignity

Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically regardless of class, race, gender, religion, abilities, or any other factor other than them being human. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable rights.

Faith

Faith has the attributes of vision and hope, giving people the will to persevere in their path despite persecution and seeming lack of results. Faith allows things to happen. It is the power that comes from a fearless heart. And when a fearless heart believes, anything is possible.  Faith has many dimensions and aspects. There is faith which is belief, faith which is knowledge, faith which is vision, faith which is trust, and faith which is the heart’s intention.  Many consider faith to be the starting point for knowledge and the basis for proper effort on the path to living a virtuous life.

Sincerity

Sincerity is the virtue of one who communicates and acts in accordance with the entirety of their feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and desires in a manner that is honest and genuine.  Sincerity is generally understood to be truth in word and actions.

Loyalty

Loyalty is essential to every relationship we have in life that matters: friendship, family, community, country, faith. The loyal person acts for and stays with and remains committed even when loyalty can be personally disadvantageous or costly for the loyal person to do so.  Loyalty means unswerving allegiance in what you do. It’s in your mind and your heart. Loyalty can be demanding and involve sacrifice. With loyalty, you build relationships that will last forever.