The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

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"Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more."

- Pat Summitt

Awareness

"Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re bound to make the same one again."

- Pat Summitt

Personal Growth

"When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are."

- Pat Summitt

Courage

"Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it."

- Pat Summitt

Hard Work

"To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost."

- Pat Summitt

Teamwork

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"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