Quotes About Volition

To advise is not to compel.

Without God's work of regeneration in which he changes the disposition and volition of man, no one can or will truly assent to the biblical propositions about God and Christ.

If the human mind makes decisions based on factors, causes, and influences not chosen by the mind itself, then these decisions are not free.

Great things are not something accidental, they must be distinctly willed.

It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Single by choice, just not my choice.

After all, a man is only what he has decided to do, or not to do.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself, and it is, therefore, the most powerful and valuable form of energy in the universe. For a time, the spirit may become flesh, but when that phase of its existence is at an end, it will be transformed into a disembodied spirit once more.

in this world of free will, fate is amorphous.

We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

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

The mere existence of alternatives is not . . . enough to make my action free.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

The greatest power a person possesses is the power to choose.

In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous drones by choice is even more frightening than one in which they are forced to be so against their will. When human beings relinquish their individuality and identity of their own volition, they are also relinquishing their claim to being human.

The wild gods live with the wild plants. Once, all of our gods were plants and animals. The allies are the ancient gods, their wisdom is the ancient substrate of our volition; they are the maternal transmitters of our vision and dreams. Anthropomorphic gods were the children of the plant gods. That is why destroying wild habitat is parricide, because the gods cannot live without their habitat, and it was the gods that made us, and gave us our culture.

The wild gods live with the wild plants. Once, all of our gods were plants and animals. The allies are the ancient gods, their wisdom is the ancient substrate of our volition; they are the maternal transmitters of our vision ans dreams. Anthropomorphic gods were the children of the plant gods. That is why destroying wild habitat is parricide, because the gods cannot live without their habitat, and it was the gods that made us, and gave us our culture.

Autonomous motivation involves behaving with a full sense of volition and choice," they write, "whereas controlled motivation involves behaving with the experience of pressure and demand toward specific outcomes that comes from forces perceived to be external to the self.

A man always has a choice

And this, Agent Nichol, is the key. It's choice.' 'Choice?' 'We choose our thoughts. We choose our perceptions. We choose our attitudes.