"Character Will Tell"

In the long run, you will not have any educational degrees, awards, or other honors that you have earned. In the long run, you will not have access to your financial assets. Nor professional reputation nor fame. 

In the long run, you will not be remembered for what you have and had, but for what you are and were—your “being” will remain, not your “having.”

What you will leave behind you is only the memory of your character. Not attainments, but only character, will tell. Good deeds, not facile speech.

If you have family, they will remember you—but only by your character. And many people, including myself, believe that G-d will remember you by how hard you tried to have good character. G-d will look at your degree of effort, your struggles, not by counting the failures you had in climbing towards your aim for good character.