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Man Quotes by Sidney Poitier
- If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
- My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad.…
- My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
- As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my…
- But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
- I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
- In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
- Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he…
- As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure…
- In America, it is difficult to be your own man.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle