Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

- Morgan, Robin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

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

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

13.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

14.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

17.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

19.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

20.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

21.

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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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

23.

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

Sevareid, Eric

24.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

25.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

26.

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

May, Rollo

27.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

28.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

32.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

33.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

35.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

37.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Clinton, Bill

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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

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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.

44.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

50.

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.