Simon Bolivar Quotes

Life is about committing ourselves on a daily basis to the best in us. Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is an attitude. Freedom is a spirit. You may be behind bars, but you still have the capacity to be free. I've visited some people behind bars who are freer than Negroes I see running around every day. Being in jail, or poor, or uneducated doesn't determine how free you can be. There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.

You cannot break the human spirit.

I do feel there are countless people on earth who do not believe in the inner power, the inner life. They feel that the outer strength and the outer life are everything. I do not agree with them. There is an inner life; there is spirit, and my ability to lift these heavy weights proves that it can work in matter as well.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

God's Word refreshes our mind and God's Spirit renews our strength.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.