Pearl Bailey Quotes, Thoughts and images

No one can figure out your worth but you.

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

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

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

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

You must change in order to survive.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I discuss humanity and not races.

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.

The deed of love is stronger than words

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

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

You can taste a word.

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.

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

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

Fate carries its own clock.

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

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

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

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