Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Patricia Sampson

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

10.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

11.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Hill, Christopher

13.

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

May, Rollo

14.

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

Adams, John

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

18.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

21.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

22.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

23.

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.

24.

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.

25.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

26.

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

Malcolm X

27.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

28.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

29.

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

Mckern, Leo

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

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

32.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

33.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

34.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

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

Adams, John

36.

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

Greer, Germaine

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

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

42.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

43.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

45.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

James, William

50.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James