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 Our reputations are based on a lot of things - situations, perceptions (which can be accurate or not), our own personal baggage, and to some extent our characters.  The extent of our character being involved in our reputation is based on this: as long as we are not comfortable in our own skin we will be more concerned with reputation than character.   Once  we become comfortable in our own skin our character doesn't play, as much or usually, into our reputations.  Our character then becomes our  reputation  because there is no  differentiation  between the two.  That's the goal by the way.  To shed the  reputation  and let your character speak for you.  What is character?  It is who you are at the core.  It is the true you...