50 quotes on Freedom, Choice, and Responsibility
—a powerful trio that speaks to personal agency, the weight of our decisions, and the courage it takes to live authentically.
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"With great power comes great responsibility."
— Voltaire (popularized by Spider-Man)
"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
— George Bernard Shaw
"You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choices."
— Ezra Taft Benson
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
— Albert Camus
"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."
— Jim Rohn
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances."
— Viktor E. Frankl
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
— Sigmund Freud
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
— Thornton Wilder
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
— Thomas Jefferson
"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"Freedom lies in being bold."
— Robert Frost
"The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave."
— Alexis de Tocqueville
"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
— Yann Martel
"Every choice you make has an end result."
— Zig Ziglar
"Responsibility is the price of freedom."
— Elbert Hubbard
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
— Abraham Lincoln
"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights."
— Justice Louis Brandeis
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
— Moshe Dayan
"He who is brave is free."
— Seneca
"Each person designs his own life, freedom gives us the power to choose, and choices determine direction."
— Stephen R. Covey
"Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions."
— Viktor E. Frankl
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
— Jim Rohn
"Choice, not chance, determines your destiny."
— Aristotle
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Søren Kierkegaard
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."
— Richard Bach
"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent."
— Mike Tyson
"Discipline is the foundation upon which all freedom is built."
— Jocko Willink
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"You cannot control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen."
— Kody Keplinger
"You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences."
— Sheldon B. Kopp
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility."
— Albert Einstein
"We have the freedom to choose, but not the freedom to escape the consequences of those choices."
— Unknown
"Your freedom ends where my nose begins."
— Zechariah Chafee
"To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
— Nelson Mandela
"Life is the sum of all your choices."
— Albert Camus
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
— Aeschylus
"Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power."
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
"There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought."
— Charles Kingsley
"To enjoy freedom, we have to control ourselves."
— Virginia Woolf
"The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted."
— Mance Rayder (George R.R. Martin)
"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame."
— Erica Jong
"When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action."
— Lois McMaster Bujold
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
— Albert Camus
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