Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, primarily known as Pearl S
10 quotes.
Quotes by Pearl S. Buck
- All things are possible until they are proved impossible — and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
- Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
- I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
- Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
- Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
- The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
- To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.
- You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.