We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. Sidney Poitier More Quotes by Sidney Poitier More Quotes From Sidney Poitier Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process. Sidney Poitier powerfultwopeople 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. Sidney Poitier shapesuseliars I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. Sidney Poitier poormenfather I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family. Sidney Poitier catholicdyingyears I cannot be understood in three minutes. Sidney Poitier understoodminutesthree We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. Sidney Poitier sufferingperfectionlove 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. And he was a very good man. Sidney Poitier dadmenfather The older we get the less afraid we are. Sidney Poitier Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. Sidney Poitier despisebehaviorhumans Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure. Sidney Poitier insecureselfishway If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man. Sidney Poitier apologizingmenchildren But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. Sidney Poitier abilityshotsmy-own My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name. Sidney Poitier mothermenfather I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know. Sidney Poitier intriguedgrowthstills 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 of a man is how well he provides for his children. Sidney Poitier fatherchildrenson We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited. Sidney Poitier painsufferingexpectations I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons. Sidney Poitier natureattitudeorder I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species. Sidney Poitier granddaughterunderstandingyears Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth. Sidney Poitier beltsteethhair My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. Sidney Poitier racemenfather
