Quotes from Pearl Bailey

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.

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.

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.

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.

You never find yourself until you face the truth

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

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.

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

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

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 the first.

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We must change in order to survive.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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

You must change in order to survive..

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.

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