Volitional Quotes
11 quotes by 8 authors
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Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several…
— William James
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...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the…
— William James
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good…
— Ayn Rand
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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…
— Abraham Maslow
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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
— M. Scott Peck
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Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
— James Joyce
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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a…
— M. Scott Peck
Who Wrote These Volitional Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 11 Volitional Quotes as follows: