Pearl Bailey Quotes

Powerful Pearl Bailey for Daily Growth

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

- Pearl Bailey

Love, World, Needs, Woe

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

Love, Alive, Here, Love Is

You must change in order to survive.

- Pearl Bailey

Change, Survive, Must, To Survive

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

Work, Touch, Very, God-Given

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

- Pearl Bailey

Self, Sin, Cheat, Frauds

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

- Pearl Bailey

Young, Achievements, Notions

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

Past, Will, Hide, Catch

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

- Pearl Bailey

Hungry, Perhaps, Cannot, Producing

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

- Pearl Bailey

Rest, Never, Always, Certain

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

Morning, Feet, Go, Throws

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

- Pearl Bailey

Devil, Someone, Does, Tense

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

- Pearl Bailey

Love, World, Needs, Less

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

- Pearl Bailey

God, Every Day, See, Recognize

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

- Pearl Bailey

Us, Wearing, Hurts, Crown

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

- Pearl Bailey

See, Effects, Times, Us

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

- Pearl Bailey

Swallow, Either, Period, Sour

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

- Pearl Bailey

Belong, Anyone, Else, Anyone Else

No one can figure out your worth but you.

- Pearl Bailey

You, Out, Your, Figure

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