Top 224 Quotes & Sayings by Pearl S. Buck
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Pearl S. Buck.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
I am mentally bifocal.
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
Love dies only when growth stops.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Love alone could waken love.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
One faces the future with one's past.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
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