Pearl Bailey Quotes

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

You must change in order to survive.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

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.

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.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

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's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

I discuss humanity and not races.

You can taste a word.

I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

The deed of love is stronger than words

I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all, how does it rain?

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Fate carries its own clock.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

People see God every day they just don't recognize Him.

The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.

I see their souls and I hold them in my hands and because I love them they weigh nothing.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

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.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

There are two kinds of talents 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.