something more important than income

Life as a mouse is better than a lion carpet.Interity is hard to maintain especially if your have a family to feed and such.Nowsday doing business is cut throat, hard to have a full integrity as specially those countries where bribery cronies corruption is rampant.At least is not murder or thief directly.Moral is name sake only.I also wish to have interity and moral.But after being repeatly cheated and get stolen from,i also join the wagon.Maybe i am weak and stupid.

Hi Cherwin! I would say that the interaction between our income and our lifestyle greatly influences our perception on our own moral integrity. A change in any of these options, income versus lifestyle, would affect our morality. With more income and not much change in our lifestyle then our perception on our own moral integrity could well be said healthy. But with less income and when keeping up with our lifestyle becomes a burden then our morality could often be challenged. The opposite could well be true either. At the end of the day opportunity decides whether "Better is the one of little means who is walking in his integrity than anymore crooked in his ways, although he is rich", "Better is a dish of vegetable where there is love than a manger-fed bull and hatred along with it."

incomes better than integrity. i'm a rich jerk.

Yes I agree with all the things you said. No money is enough to buy or pay for good integrity and character. It is we who make it and maintain it so no matter how low your income is, as long as you are working with integrity then you should always be at peace. I hope that the next leaders here in the Philippines will always maintain good character and integrity so that we can have a better country. I hope everybody will do the same and stop corruption.

Yes, I agree with you. When you lose your moral integrity, you will lose everything else including your source of income. You may get away with it for a while, but the truth will eventually surface and it is not good to only think of money all the time since everything is just temporary.

Yes on my view I deffinetly support moral character. If our moral charcter is lose in a moment then it couldnot return in our life. If you are a bussinessman and your character is not good then not success for a lifetime. For your income you through your moral character then you establish as a rich people for some days but not for a long time.

That's right. I agree with you. riches may fade away but the moral and character of a person never fades. morals can never be bought but it can only be taught and acquired through once experiences. Right moral make a person well respected and loved and not his riches. He may be loved but not for who he is but for his treasures, so if one loses his treasures then he will be unloved. But a man with good character loses his treasures, he will still be loved, respected and treasured. I am speaking in how it is viewed on earth. But if I speak in the view of heaven, character is more important because as i said it remains, so when you go to heaven it will still remain and you will be rewarded for it, but your riches will be left on earth, so when you die you will be judged according to your character and not your riches for no one could buy or pay a fare to go to heaven.