Best Quotes on Freedom

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Life is about choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you like to be.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Fear I have not, fear I have not, even if the entire world stands against me.

Don't set your own goals by what other people make important.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose and commit myself to what is best for me.

First let a slave know that he is a slave. Then, he will automatically wake up.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

Freedom is not given, it is taken.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.

You say I have a homeland. But, I want to reiterate, I don't have that… If we are treated worse than dogs and cats, If there is no right to drinking water, any self respecting untouchable considers this country as his country?

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Stop being tormented by everyone else's reaction to you.

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

India is not a country of the Hindus only. It is a country of the Muslims, the Christians, and the Parsees too.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount upon the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear.

If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies, and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birthright of all.

Freedom itself demands discomfort.

நிமிர்ந்த நன்னடை நேர்கொண்ட பார்வையும், நிலத்தில் யார்க்கும் அஞ்சாத நெறிகளும்.

The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss.

Only the educated are free.

It is secondary whether we choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to choose.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom!

We forge the chains we wear in life.

We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

நிமிர்ந்த நன்னடை நேர்கொண்ட பார்வையும், நிலத்தில் யார்க்கும் அஞ்சாத நெறிகளும், திமிர்ந்த ஞானச் செருக்கும் இருப்பதால் செம்மை மாதர் திறம்புவ தில்லையாம்.

பெண்ணடிமை தீருமட்டும் பேசும் திருநாட்டில் மண்ணடிமை தீர்ந்து வருதல் முயற்கொம்பே.

பகுத்தறிவும், சுயமரியாதையுமே ஒரு மனிதனை முழு மனிதனாக்கும்.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

புதியதோர் உலகம் செய்வோம் - கெட்ட போரிடும் உலகத்தை வேரோடு சாய்ப்போம்.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Life begins where fear ends.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Discipline equals freedom.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Do not try to be on the side of the majority, but live according to your inner laws.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

There is no limitations except those we create for ourselves.

Freedom and power bring responsibility.

Learning needs freedom to think and freedom to imagine, both facilitated by the teacher.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others.

சுயமரியாதை என்பது பிறப்புரிமை. அதை யாருக்கும் விட்டுக்கொடுக்கக் கூடாது.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.

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

Life has no limitations except the ones you make.

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

It's better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

It's beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind or permit others to set up for you.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

A golden cage is still just a cage.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful - more free of interruptions - than your own soul.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone elses. life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

It is up to each of us to sing as we feel moved by the overall song of life.

It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

Learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

There's more to life than being a passenger.

Through discipline comes freedom.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.