Quotes About Volition

And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;

É também prazeroso o que não é resultado da coação, porquanto esta se opõe à natureza. Consequentemente, aquilo que é ditado pela força da necessidade é doloroso, e daí o dito tão acertado: Tudo o que se faz por força da necessidade é amargo.

That suggested two possibilities. It was either too unintelligent to understand him—or it was very intelligent indeed, with its own powers of choice and volition. In that case, he must treat it as an equal. Even then he might underestimate it—but it would bear him no resentment, for conceit was not a vice from which robots often suffered.

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

Forgetting is something time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision

The crux of the matter is, of course, the question of forgiveness. Forgetting is something that time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

To will is to engage myself to persevere in my will.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Reason also is choice.

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election.

liberty consists in doing what one desires

There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.

In fact, Mott had not been forced to believe anything: the willing lies of fiction depend upon willing believers. Like love, belief is an act of volition.

Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

rad - ono što ?iniš pod moranje, a igra sve ono na šta nisi primoran.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

Der Mensch kann wohl tun was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen was er will.

The mind is by its nature free, not a slave; only what it does by itself and willingly is successful.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

Ä°nsan yapabileceklerini isteyerek yapmal? ve çekmesi gereken ac?y? isteyerek çekmelidir. -Gnomici poetae Graeci

A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants.