Quotes about Volition

You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

For while we may debate our freedom to choose, there is no doubt that we are not free not to choose.

For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.

But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.

While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.

So you will be...  What you 'will' to be

No power, no event, no circumstance, can compel a man to evil and unhappiness. He himself is his own compeller. He thinks and acts by his own volition. No being, however wise and great--not even the Supreme--can make him good and happy. He himself must choose the good, and thereby find the happy.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

Since God by His very nature (love) cannot force anyone to love Him, it would be highly improper to think of a heaven where people were forced to be there.

Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.