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Pearl Bailey
American
Actress
About the author
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
No one can figure out your worth but you.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Worth
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Truth
You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Change
#Order
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Love
#Work
#World
#Needs
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Talk
#Devil
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Life
#Knowledge
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,
American
Actress
#Will
#Past
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,
American
Actress
#God
#Work
#Man
#Talent
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Love
#World
#Needs
#Joy
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#First
#Self
#Sin
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#God
#People
#Day
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Ideas
#Rest
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,
American
Actress
#God
#Feet
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#People
#Violence
#Learning
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#First
#Help
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,
American
Actress
#Love
#Earth
#Man
#Ambition
#Blessings
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Worth
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#Years