What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: 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.
—Pearl Bailey
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Truth
Children, you must remember something. 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
Topics: Ambition
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
—Pearl Bailey
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
Topics: Talent
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