Pearl Bailey famous quotes

No one can figure out your worth but you.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Figures

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Love #Romantic #Valentines Day

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

#Inspirational #God #Godly

You must change in order to survive.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Life #Change #Order

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

#Love #Ambition #Men

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Life #Leadership #Firsts

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Food #Past #Bridges

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

#Acceptance #Sour #Periods

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

#Cheating #Self #Firsts

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Achievement #Youth #Young

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Self Love

I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Religious #Kitchen #Priestesses

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Love #Life #Heartbreak

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

#Love #Hands #Soul

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

#Life #Devil #Doe

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Life #Encouraging #Being Yourself

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

#Work #Men #Two

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Happiness #Inspiring #Success

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

#Inspirational Life #Circles #Ideas

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Mirrors #Diversity #Brotherhood

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

#Wise #Memories #Women

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

#Peace #People #African American

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Adventure #Years #People

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?
-- Pearl Bailey

#Men #Doors #Giving

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Fall #Thinking #World

Fate carries its own clock.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Fate #Timing #Clock

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Music #Thank God #Stories

I discuss humanity and not races.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Race #Humanity

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Worry #Sun #Enjoy

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.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Heart #Men #Understanding

The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Preparation #Meals #Ingredients

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

#Being Yourself #Morning #Attitude

You can taste a word.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Taste

The deed of love is stronger than words
-- Pearl Bailey

#Marriage #Love Is #Stronger

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Hate #Men #Necks