Sidney Poitier Quotes

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

Your home town is not where you are from. It is what you are.

If you close your eyes and think about where you feel the most safe, you're probably not going to tell me it's in a room full of police. You feel safe where you're around people that love you, when you have food and shelter, when you're being pushed to be your best self and learn.

You never know how your kids are going to turn out. You can raise them with all the best intentions, and then they're own people, and they have their own inner conflicts. You just hope you've given them some good stuff to navigate with.

Having such a supportive family has really shaped the person that I am today.

I think kids are in your temporary care, and that they probably arrive with pretty much the personalities they're going to have. I grew up in a perfectly traditional family and turned out how I did. I'm not sure there's much that the family can do except lots of love and lots of care and lots of chances for them to develop the best they can.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

Lessons learned in the home, last the longest.

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.

I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

Father said conflict develops the character

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.