Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

May, Rollo

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Luther, Martin

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

11.

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

12.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Lawana Blackwell

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Voltaire

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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

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Durant, William J.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Voltaire

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

Mckern, Leo

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda