Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bhagavad Gita

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Ruskin, John

10.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

11.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

12.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

15.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

20.

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

21.

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

Henry, Patrick

22.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Patricia Sampson

24.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

George, David Lloyd

26.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

27.

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

28.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

29.

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

30.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

31.

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

32.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

33.

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

Albert Einstein

34.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

35.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

36.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

37.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

38.

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

39.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

40.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

42.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

43.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

45.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

49.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

50.

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