Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

10.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

11.

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

Silesius, Angelus

12.

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

Albert Einstein

13.

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

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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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

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

George, David Lloyd

21.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Durant, William J.

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lenin

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Clinton, Bill

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

44.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

47.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

48.

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

Pericles