Pearl Bailey Quotes

No one can figure out your worth but you.

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

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away 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.

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.

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

You must change in order to survive.

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

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

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.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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 sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.

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.