Quotes About Volition

Nor could it be maintained that the agent himself can know that any overt action of his own is the effect of a given volition.

The connection between volitions and movements is allowed to be mysterious, so, for all he knows, his volition may have had some other movement as its effect and the pulling of the trigger may have had some other event for its cause.

People do what they want to do. Thr only thing that matters at the end is your own will

You have a free will and there is always a choice. Your power resides in that moment of choice.

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So you will be...  What you 'will' to be

So You will be what you will to be;

No power, no event, no circumstance, can compel a man to evil and unhappiness. He himself is his own compeller. He thinks and acts by his own volition. No being, however wise and great--not even the Supreme--can make him good and happy. He himself must choose the good, and thereby find the happy.

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

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

God the Son, by being truly human without ceasing to be truly God, is both equal to the Father and less than the Father—equal by nature and less by volition to service. By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

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As long as there's choice, the end is never set.

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

Since God by His very nature (love) cannot force anyone to love Him, it would be highly improper to think of a heaven where people were forced to be there.

Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

A human being is a deciding being.