Quotes About Volition

And can you be forced by anyone to desire something against your will? 'No.

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more free-will than at other times, master of his fate, an agent. —Abraham Maslow

If you think of yourself as a sleeping city for example… what? You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

man can do what he wants," said Schopenhauer, "but not want what he wants.

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

A (catch) net (is) no good unless the person to be caught (wants) to be caught.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

It would be nice if nobody ever had to make anybody do anything.

Quisiera ser el pez - pensó - con todo lo que tiene frente a mi voluntad y mi inteligencia solamente.

No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.

I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice.

Obedience without choice is servitude. Love without choice is not love.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

As he chooses, he is.