Quotes by Pearl Bailey

• We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
• No one can figure out your worth but you.
• You never find yourself until you face the truth.
• You must change in order to survive.
• You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
• When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
• To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
• There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
• 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.
• 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.
• The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
• People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
• Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
• 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.
• Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
• 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.
• A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
• Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.