A Top Leadership Quality: Valuing Your Word Of Honor

I have been asked what I mean by "word of honor." I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls — walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into ground — there is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No, never. I'd die first.
   — Karl G. Maeser
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