Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Freedom

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Pericles

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

George, David Lloyd

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel