Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sieyes, Abbe

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

10.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

11.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

Durant, William J.

13.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

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

Adams, John

16.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

17.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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.

20.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

21.

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

22.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

24.

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

25.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

33.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

36.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

37.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

40.

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

Macleish, Archibald

41.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

42.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

43.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.