Do you know the mayor of Murray, Utah? (I should say past mayor as his term just ended.) His name is Dan Snarr and he is famous for his long mustache. There was an article in the paper about him last week and he said something that I really like. Mayor Snarr said,
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be."
Dan is not the usual politician. Doug Robinson of the Deseret News says this about him, "Whatever pops into his mind comes out of his mouth. He likes cowboy poetry and flowers. He drives a rusty old car and gets up at 4 a.m. to plow snow and keeps a sprayer in his back seat so he can kill weeds around town just to experience that warm feeling of progress that he craves. There is no subterfuge, no spin; what you see is what you get--a man who's a little rough around the edges by a politician's standards, but passionate, aggressive, outspoken, and always, genuine."
I like that he did not try to be someone he is not.
My thoughts about his quote: Integrity is being true to yourself and your standards in every circumstance. It means being the same person in private as you are in public, or I guess it could also go the other way around too--it means being the same person in public that you are in private. It means being honest and true. Integrity is vital because it constitutes your moral backbone. It is when you make for yourself a set of standards and then live by them.
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