Look at who talks ill of you.
Then look at where they are standing.
They are behind you, they speak ill of you behind your back.
People who are ahead have no spare time for your name.
They are too busy with their own work and their own mission.
Gossip is what idle peasant people do when they have no vision of their own to work towards.
Let them talk and you keep focused, do not get distracted by this or let it consume you.
The noise will always come from behind you.
Do not look in that direction because you are not going in that direction.