“You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were.”
"I am what I have become."
- Sidney Poitier
Self-awareness
"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
- Sidney Poitier
Integrity
"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."
- Sidney Poitier
Integrity
"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."
- Sidney Poitier
Personal Growth
"We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?"
- Sidney Poitier
Education
"We are all capable of change, both in our actions and our hearts."
- Beauty and the Beast
Personal Growth
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."
- Clayton M. Christensen
Personal Growth
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."
- Mark Twain
Personal Growth