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Quotes by Pearl Bailey

Pearl Bailey

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”

“People see God every day, they just dont recognize him.”

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

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

“When youre young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.”

“You must change in order to survive.”

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

There is a way to look at the past. Dont hide from it. It will not catch you if you dont repeat it.

You must change in order to survive.

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.

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it wont be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

People see God every day they just dont recognize Him.

The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.

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

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

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