Famous Quotes

"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

James A. Baldwin on Hope

More quotes about Hope

• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

  Albert Einstein on Hope

• "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Hope

• "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Hope

• "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

  Maya Angelou on Hope

• "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

  Dalai Lama on Hope

More quotes by James A. Baldwin

• "People can cry much easier than they can change."

• "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

• "Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

• "The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

• "The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."