Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

George, David Lloyd

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Thomas Jefferson

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Milton, John

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Durant, William J.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

20.

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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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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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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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.