Freedom
121 quotes: 5 by Keith Craft, 116 from other voices.
Other voices on Freedom
- He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- He who is brave is free.
- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
- How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him?
- How long will you allow your past to hold you back before you finally take control of your future?
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- If you let go of your story, you get to live your life.
- If you want to get free, you have to first get honest.
- In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
- It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
- It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
- It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
- I’ve learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.
- Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to it. Liberty must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
- Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
- No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
- No greater hell than to be a slave to fear.
- No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
- No man is free who cannot command himself.
- No man is free who is not master of himself.
- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Not caring about what others think of you is the ultimate form of freedom. No amount of money or status can get you that freedom. It costs $0 and lots of courage.
- Nothing can drag you down if you’re not holding on to it.
- O Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name.
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- One must not fear truth, because it is a friend of man and of his freedom
- Only the disciplined ones are purely free in life and the undisciplined are slaves to their moods and passions.
- Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one’s self; order is power.
- Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
- Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
- Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
- Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
- People are not here to meet your expectations.
- Power is duty; freedom is responsibility.