Volition Quotes

• David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his worship - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Though our affections for God may wax and wane, His character is unchanging! We even see David speaking to his own soul, demanding of it, "Bless the Lord!"

  

  Laura Story
  • Character
  • Spirit
  • Worship

• The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Existence
  • Rate
  • Purposes

• One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Consideration
  • Theories
  • Omission

• The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Written
  • Measure
  • Foreordained

• A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Progress
  • Roads
  • Volition

• When someone is telling you what to do all the time, anything you do of your own volition becomes a protest, doesn’t it?

  

  Brigid Pasulka
  • Protest
  • Volition

• And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Believe
  • Justice
  • Goal