Pearl Bailey
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Discover More Quotes From Your Favorite Authors
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Security is a kind of death.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It's showtime !
Get busy living or get busy dying.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Begin with the end in mind.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
Live with passion.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Let's go home, Debbie.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.