Hard workers are usually honest. Industry lifts them above temptation.

Work that fully occupies you leaves little appetite for shortcuts. Scheming takes time, attention and a certain restlessness, and someone absorbed in doing a thing well usually has none of the three going spare. That says less about the moral quality of the busy than about what fills a life. Give a capable person real work and the crooked route stops being interesting.

If you find yourself tempted to cut a corner, look first at whether you are bored or underused rather than at your own character. Boredom explains a surprising amount of bad behaviour. Ask for harder work before you find something worse to do with the spare capacity.