CHARACTER

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because character is what you really are while reputation is merely what others think you are.
--- John Wooden, coach of 10 championship UCLA Bruins basketball teams

A man's character is the reality of himself. His reputation is the opinion others have formed of him. Character is the substance, reputation is the shadow.
--- Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
--- George Washington, First U.S. President

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
--- J.C. Watts

Six Pillars of Character:
Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, Citizenship
--- From charactercounts.org

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
— Albert Einstein, Swiss-American mathematician, physicist and public philosopher (1879-1955)

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
— Theodore Roosevelt, American adventurer and 26th president (1858-1919)

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
— Booker T. Washington, American educator and civil rights activist (1856-1915)

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures
— Horace Greeley, American journalist and educator (1811-1872)