But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
Quote by Sidney Poitier
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But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
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Sidney Poitier Quotes
- I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
- So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
- History passes the final judgment.
- So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
- I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
- I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
- I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
- My father was very big on marriage.
- To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
- I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
Best Quotes
- I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
- All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Your secret labour is always your open flavour.
- I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
- For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- A man existence is punishment enough, he can feel lonely, sad and mad sometimes but what makes one a real man is what he stands to be now for the future.
- Great hopes make great men.