“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”
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American writer 1940–2015Related quotes
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Variant: 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.
Fred Shero (1925–1990) Former ice hockey player and coach
Jackson, Jim, Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now
“Your reputation is what you're perceived to be,
Your character is what you really are”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
“If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.”
Alan Sugar (1947) British business magnate, media personality, and political advisor
From, The Apprentice, BBC television, 3rd June 2009 ( taken from “If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.” ― D.L. Moodysee http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5083573.D_L_Moody ).
“If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
“You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Something Blue
“Only you can control your future.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variant: You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.