Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

10.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

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

13.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

14.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

15.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

17.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

19.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

20.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

21.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

23.

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.

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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

25.

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

George, David Lloyd

26.

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

Herbert, Frank

27.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

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

30.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

31.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

32.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Chomsky, Noam

34.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

40.

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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

43.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

45.

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

46.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

47.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

49.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.