The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
“''I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (...) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say… — Jeffrey Hollender Copy Share Image
“The thirst we shared for one another made it clear that the distraction would only come from deprivation. Charlotte was always on… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
“«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I pulled my chair up to the table and Alex sat down, following suit, unable to guard a smile from breaking onto… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is… — Ramesh S Balsekar Copy Share Image
“I was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn’t predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
“Duckworth finds it useful to divide the mechanics of achievement into two separate dimensions: motivation and volition. Each one, she says, is… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having… — William James Copy Share Image
I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He… — William James Copy Share Image
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his… — Laura Story Copy Share Image
The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
![“I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public. That trumped any type of…” quote by Matt Bomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/matt-bomer-2221_able_i-m-so-thankful-to-have-been-born-in-the_2845290.jpg)
