Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Epictetus

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Voltaire

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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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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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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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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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

Hoffer, Eric