Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

- Bolingbroke, Henry

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

18.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

27.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.