Cole continues:

Your talent can take you where your character cannot sustain you. Character is determined by faithfulness.  Faithful to your word, to your beliefs, to your responsibilities.  Our world and today’s headlines are filled with stories of great men gone bad. Men can flaunt talent, but character is built in the deep recesses of your life.  Committed to truth, honor, valor.  Without a strong core, talented men become a flashing meteor of history that appears spectacular but quickly flames out. Fame can come in a moment but greatness comes with longevity.  What you do in life becomes history, what you put into motion becomes your legacy.