The answer is integrity. It's what you're showing when what you do lines up with what you say you believe.
Emotional stability, discretion, and diplomacy are all worth having, but they're about something else — staying level under pressure, knowing what to keep quiet, and handling people well. None of those is specifically about whether your behavior matches your stated values. That match is the whole definition of integrity.
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