Top 200 Morgan Freeman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.”

— Morgan Freeman

2. “How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”

— Morgan Freeman

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3. “If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle.”

— Morgan Freeman

4. “I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.”

— Morgan Freeman

5. “If you’re not living on the edge then you’re taking up a little too much space.”

— Morgan Freeman

6. “Your best posture is your next posture.”

— Morgan Freeman

7. “You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”

— Morgan Freeman

8. “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.”

— Morgan Freeman

9. “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”

— Morgan Freeman

10. “I’m always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn’t anything more you can learn – go off and die.”

— Morgan Freeman

11. “Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.”

— Morgan Freeman

12. “Never give up the ganja.”

— Morgan Freeman

13. “These walls are funny. First you hate ’em, then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.”

— Morgan Freeman

14. “Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty.”

— Morgan Freeman

15. “If you look back on your life and where you started from it’s like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It’s like now I can’t believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.”

— Morgan Freeman

16. “Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of.”

— Morgan Freeman

17. “We humans are more concerned with having than with being.”

— Morgan Freeman

18. “Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.”

— Morgan Freeman

19. “The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”

— Morgan Freeman

20. “As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.”

— Morgan Freeman

21. “Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.”

— Morgan Freeman

22. “The highest power is the human mind. That’s where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.”

— Morgan Freeman

23. “You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?’”

— Morgan Freeman

24. “I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.”

— Morgan Freeman

25. “I’m a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it’s supposed to.”

— Morgan Freeman

26. “I gravitate towards gravitas.”

— Morgan Freeman

27. “Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.”

— Morgan Freeman

28. “How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!”

— Morgan Freeman

29. “I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”

— Morgan Freeman

30. “If we don’t save the oceans, if we don’t do something about what we’re doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we’re going to be really sorry.”

— Morgan Freeman

31. “Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.”

— Morgan Freeman

32. “You can’t take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.”

— Morgan Freeman

33. “Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”

— Morgan Freeman

34. “All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.”

— Morgan Freeman

35. “Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don’t act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, ‘I’m blind.’ So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.”

— Morgan Freeman

36. “Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.”

— Morgan Freeman

37. “Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.”

— Morgan Freeman

38. “I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can’t stand cold weather.”

— Morgan Freeman

39. “Acting means living, it’s all I do...”

— Morgan Freeman

40. “I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.”

— Morgan Freeman

41. “I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.”

— Morgan Freeman

42. “When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.”

— Morgan Freeman

43. “If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it’s a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.”

— Morgan Freeman

44. “As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”

— Morgan Freeman

45. “Stage is really hard work. You’ve got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.”

— Morgan Freeman

46. “My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.”

— Morgan Freeman

47. “Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.”

— Morgan Freeman

48. “If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.”

— Morgan Freeman

49. “Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.”

— Morgan Freeman

50. “Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love”- Morgan Freeman.”

— Morgan Freeman