“If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.”
"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."
- Jay-Z
Resilience
"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."
- Jay-Z
Empowerment
"You learn more in failure than you ever do in success."
- Jay-Z
Learning from Mistakes
"A loss ain’t a loss, it’s a lesson."
- Jay-Z
Learning from Mistakes
"Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow."
- Jay-Z
Personal Growth
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity