59 Free Inspirational Quotes

In a world filled with daily challenges and constant demands, it can be easy to forget the power of a simple, uplifting message. Whether you're facing a tough day at work, navigating personal struggles, or simply seeking a moment of peace, an inspirational quote can offer a refreshing burst of motivation. Our curated collection of the top 59 free inspirational quotes is designed to help you find that spark of positivity and determination. Dive in and let these words of wisdom elevate your spirit, encourage your heart, and remind you of the limitless potential within you.

1. “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.” - Albert Einstein

2. “The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.” - Jules Renard

3. “The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the daySpills over buildings into the streets where orphans playAnd only You can see the good in broken thingsYou took my heart of stone, and You made it homeAnd set this prisoner free” - Bethany Dillon

4. “The tasteof rain-- Why kneel?” - Jack Kerouac

5. “I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.” - C.S. Lewis

6. “A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.” - Vera Nazarian

7. “the truth will set u free but first it will piss u off” - Albert Borris

8. “They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that’s it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!” - Anton Krotov

9. “The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.” - Clarice Lispector

10. “I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.” - Lauren Myracle

11. “The World Bank, anxious that the last vestiges of Zimbabwe's former inclination toward socialism be abandoned, successfully urged the imposition of a token tuition charge for all grade levels. Equivalent to one U. S. dollar per year per child, this fee constitutes a burden to the poorest families, who have responded by sending only boys to classes. Too many of the girls . . . have resorted to prostitution in order to eat.” - Michael Dorris

12. “Life calls the tune, we dance.” - John Galsworthy

13. “He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.” - Jon Krakauer

14. “But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.” - Claudia Gray

15. “If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?” - Mary Astell

16. “Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?” - Mary Balogh

17. “You were free, you are free and you will be free.” - Santosh Kalwar

18. “Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.” - Tracy Chapman

19. “Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.” - Yann Martel

20. “Belief traps or frees us.” - Rachel Naomi Remen

21. “When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.” - Kristi Bowman

22. “How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?” - Ann Marie Aguilar

23. “You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.” - Alysha Speer

24. “But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.” - Lauren DeStefano

25. “From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.” - Brenna Yovanoff

26. “Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.” - Criss Jami

27. “All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.” - J.D. Stroube

28. “Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.” - Robert Fulghum

29. “No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.” - L.M. Montgomery

30. “Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.” - Deepak Chopra

31. “Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.” - Brian Rathbone

32. “Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything.” - Steve Maraboli

33. “Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)” - Steven James

34. “Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept; it is the purest intent of our design. Be you. Be free. Be nice.” - Steve Maraboli

35. “It's better to die free than live life in a cage.” - Jordan Dane

36. “Freedom is a place, an area. It's a higher place. There are some other people that are here, and things that are here which are unseen. But you first have to set yourself free and believe in what you cannot see, believe that there is something more out there. In freedom can be found many devotions: a devotion to love, a desire to believe, a willingness to be happy, a perseverance to have peace. All these unseen things breathe and grow in the unseen soul. A free person is not an uncommitted person, but in a free person you will find a deep devotion, and a desire to be devoted to even more.” - C. JoyBell C.

37. “I am not a number; I am a free man.” - Patrick McGoohan

38. “my new website is now live on www.danielborough.com There are free short stories to download on it. Have fun!” - Daniel Borough

39. “I am living breathing freedom” - Hiroko Sakai

40. “Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.” - Steven Redhead

41. “The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please.” - Steven Redhead

42. “Since nothing is free, to each his price.” - Gore Vidal

43. “So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. "It must be a free child," they said to each other. "It must not be a child standing still all its life on a street corner. Yes, if we have a child she mist be free to run across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. Yes, it must be a free child."So time passed on. Their child came. It was a railroad train, the Golden Spike Limited, the fastest long distance train in the Rootabaga Country. It ran across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea.” - Carl Sandburg

44. “That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free.” - Heather Anastasiu

45. “I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.” - Tegan Quin

46. “If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.” - Nenia Campbell

47. “She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.” - Monique Duval

48. “Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.” - jay woodman

49. “If you love somebody set them free- it also works equally well if you hate somebody” - Josh Stern

50. “I am the Trolley of Love. Free rides before noon and after 11:58 am!
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

51. “If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back it was not yours to began with.” - Anna Napper

52. “Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.” - Melissa Marr

53. “We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.” - Melissa Marr

54. “Free’s my favorite price.” - Juliet Blackwell

55. “I'm with him because when I'm with him, I'm free to be me. I'm with him because he's hot. I'm with him because he lets me blather, since I'm prone to blathering, and he lets me rant when I have a bad day. I'm with him because when I rant, he makes me feel better and he does this effortlessly. I'm with him because I live for the times when I'm on the back of his bike and we're riding together, not even talking, just being free.” - Kristen Ashley

56. “Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.” - Bryant McGill

57. “Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.” - Dennis E. Adonis

58. “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.” - Charlotte Eriksson

59. “Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.” - Kellie Elmore