Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bhagavad Gita

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Blum, Leon

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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

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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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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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Milton, John

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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