Quotes by : Sidney Poitier

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

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny....

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone,....

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

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness....

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful....

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.....

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.