Quotes About Freedom

Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible. I asked Nassim Taleb on my podcast what job should one have. He said, "night watchman, because nobody is around to bother you and you can pursue all your dreams on the side.

The only retirement plan is to choose yourself—to start a business or a platform or a lifestyle that allows you to put big chunks of money away. Some people can say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur.

It's not our parents' fault. Or our schools'. Or the government's. Or our friends'. They all have their own issues—no need to blame them. But there's no need to say yes to their stories either. Now is the time for us to build our own stories.

If I had a to-do list I might get even more stressed not getting to it. The to-do list becomes my master and I become the slave. One of my themes is "less slavery in my life.

True wealth occurs when you don't have to bow down to any gatekeepers—regardless of the money involved. Money is just a by-product. You are out of prison. You are free.

Many studies show that the key to contentment and confidence is three things: *?Growing competence in a pursuit you love *?Strengthening every day the relationships around you *?Increasing your freedom of choices Quote from the pope: "If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

Take control of whom you report to, what you do, and what you create. Don't just do what's listed in your job description.

Nothing wrong with suburbs and kids. But every day, I feel she is telling me, you have to unlock your creativity. If you don't let it flow, it will be trapped inside, it will mutate, it will kill you. Every day, create.

But deep inside you there is a creative force that desperately wants you to succeed, wants you to make a lot of money, wants you to fall in love and be happy, wants you to do these things not so you can live in exotic mansions and travel the world fifty times over, but so that you are free from the constraints of a normal job and can pursue the real exploration of what and where is the happiness around you.

When you have ideas, you'll quickly get freedom. When you get freedom, you'll have the energy to build more ideas, to generate more abundance, to live the life you want to live.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

If dirty words frighten you...I really don't know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

For, you see, he had found his center, his own center, inside him: and it showed. He wasn't anybody's nigger. And that's a crime, in this fucking free country. You're suppose to be somebody's nigger. And if you're nobody's nigger, you're a bad nigger: and that's what the cops decided when Fonny moved downtown.

Yet it is only when one is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream one has long cherished, or a privilege one has long possessed, that one is set free…that one has set oneself free, for higher dreams, for greater privileges. James Baldwin

I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them.