You can only hide a lack of integrity for so long. Eventually, like a faulty foundation in a storm, the cracks will start to appear and widen. Then the roof will fall in and everything you’ve worked to build will be lost.

And ‘getting away with it’ can be worse than getting caught. It encourages you to believe that you can keep on living at two levels.

Don’t think that you can do whatever you want in little things, and be all right as long as you have no major lapses.

It’s your first lie that makes you a liar. Whether you steal one pound or one million pounds - you’re still a thief.

Integrity always puts character over personal gain, people over things, service over power, principle over convenience and the long view over the immediate.

Every time you break a moral principle it becomes harder, not easier, to act with integrity.

Everything you have done in the past, including the things you have neglected to do, come to a head when you’re under pressure.

That is why developing and maintaining integrity requires constant vigilance.

The scripture says:
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. (Jeremiah 17:11)

You will gain nothing from cheating others - you are only cheating yourself!