65 Best Free Spirit Quotes On Success In Life

These free spirit quotes will inspire you. Free spirit is an independent or uninhibited person.

Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging free spirit quotes, free spirit sayings, and free spirit proverbs.

Inspirational Free Spirit Quotes

1. “You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.” ~ Truman Capote , Free spirit quotes about wild and free
2. “Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society… You were born to be free.” ~ Melanie Muller
3. “It is the free-spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy – those individuals who dare to be themselves.” ~ Kevyn Aucoin

4. “Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

5. “They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!” ~ Bill Watterson
6. “You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” ~ Richard Bach
7. “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.” ~ Edward de Bono
8. “Okay, maybe I don’t go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.” ~ Suzanne Collins

9. “I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.” ~ Ed Rendell

10. “I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!” ~ Joss Whedon
11. “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
12. “I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.” ~ John Muir
13. “I am living breathing freedom.” ~ Hiroko Sakai

14. “Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?” ~ Gabrielle

15. “We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.” ~ Sark
16. “I want to live my life without filters. I don’t walk on eggshells. I say what I want and I’m a very free spirit.” ~ Demi Lovato
17. “Even though I’m a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don’t want to see them naked.” ~ Patricia Clarkson

18. “No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself” ~ Audrey Hepburn

19. “Indeed, at hearing the news that ‘the old god is dead’, we philosophers and ‘free spirits’ feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation – finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an ‘open sea’.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche , Beautiful words for Free spirit quotes
20. “I love carelessly, live respectfully, speak intelligently, work passionately, trust recklessly, get hurt easily, and bounce back effortlessly.” ~ Tony Payne

21. “A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.” ~ Mason Cooley

22. “And it is you, spirit–with will and energy, and virtue and purity–that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
23. “To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” ~ Helen Keller
24. “We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.” ~ Ronald Reagan

25. “I realize I’m a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.” ~ Chamique Holdsclaw

26. “I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.” ~ Princess Diana
27. “I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
28. “My spirit. This is a new thought. I’m not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I’m a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It’s not as if I’m never friendly. Okay, maybe I don’t go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.” ~ Suzanne Collins

29. “I’m a free spirit – unfortunately for some.” ~ Princess Diana

30. “Would you rather be right or free?” ~ Byron Katie
31. “A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.” ~ Francis Picabia
32. “We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.” ~ Geoffrey Holder

33. “I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.” ~ Rick James

34. “The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury… Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.” ~ Charles Alexander Eastman
35. “These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.” ~ Ayn Rand
36. “But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs – is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

37. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ~ Albert Einstein

38. “Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind, and the mind then is never free.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
39. “I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.” ~ Cheryl Strayed
40. “Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself…As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called ‘I’; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

41. “Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

42. “It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.” ~ Terry Pratchett
43. “If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideas and concepts he is willing to die for.” ~ William Powell
44. “A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side – which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.” ~ Drew Barrymore

45. “I used to be a free spirit.” ~ Soleil Moon Frye

46. “I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer’s room.” ~ Katie Dippold
47. “We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We only saw pictures and read zines, so we could only interpret the aesthetic and message of punk scenes around the world. We were basically the duck-billed platypuses of punk.” ~ Beth Ditto
48. “Shackled heart, free spirit.–Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

49. “I think I’m like a free spirit.” ~ Bai Ling

50. “I have friends who have a normal family, kids, and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It’s fine for them. But I’m such a free spirit, I feel more alive when I’ve got somewhere to go.” ~ Kenny Chesney
51. “I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they’re not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I’m very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.” ~ George Michael
52. “When you put a halo on concepts – gender roles, religion, nationality or pride – or you put a halo on any topic – anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist – if you just put a halo on something and say it’s untouchable – “that is special and that is perfect” – you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.” ~ Dan Mangan

53. “One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.” ~ George Will

54. “It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.” ~ H. L. Mencken
55. “I just can’t ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I’m very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.” ~ Sarah Dessen
56. “I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand’s manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practice it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.” ~ Fay Weldon

57. “Free-spirited free-riders they’re on their way but don’t know where they’re going.” ~ Warren Miller

58. “I always had this dream to make a solo record. I told my mom when I was 7 years old, but I just ended up being in bands. I’m a free spirit. I follow my heart, and it’s led me to where I am.” ~ Fergie
59. “The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
60. “I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I’ve never married. I’m not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I’ve been fortunate enough that I’ve had great love, and I’ve dated remarkable men in my life. I’m very thankful for all of that.” ~ Patricia Clarkson

61. “I love the free spirit in London.” ~ Carine Roitfeld

62. “Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where his happiness lies.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
63. “It’s simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn’t be anywhere else – it’s so beautiful, and there’s that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn’t become ravenous in such a place?” ~ Julia Child
64. “A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.” ~ Joseph Conrad
65. “Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish’d and deck’d in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgment trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.” ~ William Shakespeare

Summary: Free Spirit, a person who thinks and acts in an uninhibited way without worrying about normal social rules.

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