Quotes About Volition

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

There is always a choice, though it is not always apparent.

No matter what situation you're in, you always have a choice.

A compliment about one's nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one's appearance doesn't mean overly much because there is no choice involved there.

We all take our own ways. We all make our own choices, for good or ill.

anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Man must choose his world

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

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

Nothing but your choices define your life.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.