Paulo Freire Quotes

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

Why give up before we try?

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

Trying is always enough.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.

Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

There is no excuse for not trying.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.