"If the image one holds of one's self……" — Sidney Poitier
"If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be."
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88 Quotes by Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier has 88 quotes on this site.
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted…
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Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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History passes the final judgment
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My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the…
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I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and…
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The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
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I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what…
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
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Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things,…
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An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
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O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because…
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I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they…
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The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these…
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[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes…
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I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed,…
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[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man,…
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In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk.…
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