Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

Bad times can make you bitter or better.