I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

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"I am what I have become."

- Sidney Poitier

Self-awareness

"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."

- Sidney Poitier

Integrity

"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."

- Sidney Poitier

Personal Growth

"You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were."

- Sidney Poitier

Personal Growth

"We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?"

- Sidney Poitier

Education

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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