“I come from a place where you had to keep your word, where people would stick with you no matter what… I just tried to be a man of my word.”
"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
"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."
- Beauty and the Beast
Integrity
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
- Baltasar Gracian
Integrity
"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."
- Hachiman Hikigaya
Integrity
"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."
- Gintoki Sakata
Integrity