Voluntarily Quotes

165 Voluntarily quotes by 146 unique authors

Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into… — Napoleon Hill
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. — Ernst Mach
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is… — Swami Vivekananda
Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works… — Martin Luther
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen
...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. They either attach themselves to God's will, which… — Gregory Palamas
A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they… — Robert K. Greenleaf
Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance. — Eugen Sandow
Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and… — Robert A. Johnson
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society.… — Ed Crane
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same… — Bertrand Russell
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you… — Richard Schmid
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity… — Tim Dorsey
The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to associate in ways… — Walter E. Williams
Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it. — Murray Walker
It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he… — Maria Montessori
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English… — Melissa Bank
No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development. — Orison Swett Marden

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