Action Quote by T. S. Eliot

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

— Evelyn Underhill

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

— Baruch Spinoza

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

— Evelyn Underhill

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to…

— Frederick Lenz

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

— Thomas Aquinas

“Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's…

— James Allen

“No one attribute so clearly distinguishes man as does the intelligent will or the will to act intelligently. It was by the exercise of…

— John A. Widtsoe

"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very…

— Samuel Smiles

“Conscious” and “unconscious” are only too obviously derivatives of “above ground” and “below ground.” In modern theories of the Will we meet with all…

— Oswald Spengler

Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness.

— Harold Klemp

Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which…

— Sam Harris