Pearl Bailey Quotes
"No one can figure out your worth but you."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Worth)
"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Truth)
"You must change in order to survive."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Change, Order)
"You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself."
- Pearl Bailey
"When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements."
- Pearl Bailey
"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Love, Work, Needs, World)
"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Devil, Talk)
"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Life, Knowledge)
"There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Past, Will)
"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Work, Talent, God, Man)
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Love, Joy, Needs, World)
"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: First, Self, Sin)
"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: God, People, Day)
"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Ideas, Rest)
"I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: God, Feet)
"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: People, Learning, Violence)
"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: First, Help)
"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Love, Ambition, Blessings, Earth, Man)
"A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Worth)
"Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Life, People, Years)