Quotes About Volition

We must believe in free will. We have no choice. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

Everybody has a choice in life.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

There is always a choice. Always. So do not say, you had no choice. Good or bad, doing it or not, is about you, not choices. Always.

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

They are (to quote the words used by Dr. J. R. Smythies in a recent paper in the American Journal of Psychiatry) "the work of a highly differentiated mental compartment, without any apparent connection, emotional or volitional, with the aims, interests, or feelings of the person concerned.

Breathing is one of the few involuntary actions of the body over which we can exercise voluntary control. That is to say, it is on the border-line between the regions of the conscious and the unconscious. The man or woman who can speak or be silent as he chooses is the individual who has self-control.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.

Your participation is now optional.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is to quit smoking, one could say that Liz Norton was a woman who found it easier to quit smoking than to go to war.

If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is to quit smoking, one could say that Liz Norton was a woman who found it easier to quit smoking than to go to war.

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

The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously used EEG to show that activity in the brain's motor cortex can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move.

To say that someone freely chose to squander his life's savings at the poker table is to say that he had every opportunity to do otherwise and that nothing about what he did was inadvertent.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Have it your way.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Volenti non fit iniuria [To a person who consents no injustice is done].

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?

Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.

But such gossip cannot be confronted. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.

If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.