Quotes About Volition

The great thing about America is, you don't have to listen unless you want to.

The idea of Original Sin—of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available—is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.

The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality. Sin is not original, it is originated--like virtue.

If, in spite of his best efforts, a man fails in a particular undertaking, he does not experience the same emotion of pride that he would feel if he had succeeded; but, if he is rational, his self-esteem is unaffected and unimpaired. His self-esteem is not—or should not be—dependent on particular successes or failures, since these are not necessarily in a man's direct, volitional control and/or not in his exclusive control.

Desires and emotions as such are involuntary; they are not subject to direct and immediate volitional control; they are the automatic result of subconscious integrations. (...) It is impossible to compute the magnitude of the disaster, the wreckage of human lives, produced by the belief that desires and emotions can be commanded in and out of existence by an act of will.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

1) YOU ARRIVED HERE BY NECESSITY. YOU STAY HERE BY CHOICE.

There is a vast difference between the things I can do, and the things I choose to do.

Without any apparent volition by Cortés, the great city lost at least a third of its population to the epidemic, including Cuitlahuac.

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

I also knew that no one had told then to stay late--they were doing so of their own volition. This type of diligence and drive is not atypical in filmmaking--it's actually commonplace.

A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE

Certain 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

This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain 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.

When the land kills of its own volition we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.

Las verdaderas ataduras son las que uno escoge, las que se busca y se pone uno solo, pudiendo no tenerlas.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

Reason is also choice.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Freedom means choosing your burden.