Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Freedom

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

James, William

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

May, Rollo

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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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

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

Epictetus

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Sevareid, Eric

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X