Measure Of A Man Sidney Poitier Quotes

#1. Usually when someone is angry we hear their angry words. Instead, try hearing the unspoken, I am scared, I am frustrated, I am insecure, I am vulnerable, I am threatened.

Charles F. Glassman

#2. Skill to do comes of doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

Standing Bear

#4. Convert life into truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. No regrets doesn't mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe you have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with your life. (P.211)

Brene Brown

#6. 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 provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

Sidney Poitier

#7. Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

Thomas Piketty

#8. The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#9. 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