Words matter. These are the best Pearl S. Buck Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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.
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.
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Love alone could waken love.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won’t let them into our country.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Love dies only when growth stops.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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.
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.
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.