Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Luther, Martin

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Epictetus

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

Washington, George

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

10.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

12.

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

Stone, W. Clement

13.

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

Pike, Albert

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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

17.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

19.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

30.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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

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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

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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

38.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Horace

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Maistre, Joseph De

48.

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

Voltaire

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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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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.