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Quote:
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”—John Wooden
Consider:
Character is that special quality that makes men and women who have character appear larger than life. Character is more than just what a person says or does—it is what a person is.
Words like honorable, honest, trustworthy, dutiful, and fidelity, describe the person with integrity in any field of endeavor. But character moves beyond integrity, while integrity is ‘not doing wrong,’ character moves beyond that into ‘doing right’.
For example, if someone is slandering someone at work and one of the other workers chose not to participate, then they displayed integrity by not doing wrong. But to display character, a person must move beyond integrity, having the courage to standup for the person being slandered.
In other words, integrity refuses to do wrong, but character is more demanding, expecting people to have the courage to do right. By helping the person being slandered, a person moves from integrity to character through their display of courage.
Think about this and see if you have the courage to go from integrity to character.
Wishing you all the best,
Dana Bosley
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