Motivational Quotes

Freedom

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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 more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Patricia Sampson

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Blum, Leon

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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.

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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.

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

Terence

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Pike, Albert

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

William Hazlitt

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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 by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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