Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Next quotes

• James Baldwin:

  I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on

• James Baldwin:

  Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The

• James Baldwin:

  It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice

• James Baldwin:

  Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an imm

• James Baldwin:

  There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the

• James Baldwin:

  Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, f

• James Baldwin:

  American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything a

• James Baldwin:

  To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time

• James Baldwin:

  The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to e

• James Baldwin:

  Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibili