Quotes About Volition

She's come to you this time of her own accord, and crossed our threshold of her own free will. May she always be free, just as she is today.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

People rarely do what they don't want to.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

it is said that whatever a man desires he wills, and whatever he wills he acts. Thus

This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Cerain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live.

really did not sell to him. He purchased of his own accord.

Él no debe sentirse obligado a brindarme más amabilidad de la que desea. Si no la ofrece por su propia voluntad, no significa nada.

Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.

Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Freedom is the opposite of necessity.

Ich kann, weil ich will, was ich muss.

You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.

An action done from duty has its moral worth, not in the purpose to be attained by it, but in the maxim according with which it is decided upon; it depends therefore, not on the realization of the object of action, but solely on the principle of volition in accordance with which, irrespective of all objects of the faculty of desire, the action has been performed.

A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition - that is, it is good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favor of any inclination, nay, even of the sum-total of all inclinations... like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.