Freedom
121 quotes: 5 by Keith Craft, 116 from other voices.
Other voices on Freedom
- Responsibility is the price of freedom.
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
- The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.
- The more forgiving we are, the freer we become.
- The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
- The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
- The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
- There are two freedoms,--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
- There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
- There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
- There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. (Hays translation)
- There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
- There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
- There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.
- Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- Those who are led should not be driven, and they should be allowed to choose their leader.
- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Through discipline comes freedom.
- To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
- To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
- To will oneself free is also to will others free.
- Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
- Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
- Unless we exercise our power to choose wisely, our actions will be determined by conditions. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
- Until we can forgive, we remain locked in our pain and locked out of the possibility of experiencing healing and freedom, locked out of the possibility of being at peace.
- We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
- We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and liberty.
- What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
- What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
- What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.
- When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
- When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
- Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
- You are one of a kind. Your combination of skills and experience is not replicable. That represents true freedom and the ultimate power we humans can possess.
- You’re a slave to everyone you haven’t forgiven.
- Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.Ralph Waldo EmersonCommonly attributed