You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Identity
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Change, Helpfulness
When you’re young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Accomplishment
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Love
There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Awareness, Self-Discovery, Self-Knowledge, Identity, Acceptance, Being True to Yourself, Realization
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Love
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
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Listening
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
Topics: Attitude, Choice
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
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.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Blessings
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: The Truth, Truth
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: Worth
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
People see God every day; they just don’t recognize Him.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: God
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
—Pearl Bailey
Topics: The Present
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