Volitional Behavior Quotes

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all this social conditioning, but there is a point where you do have to make a choice, and that's the optimist in me: you have the freedom to make a choice about how you are going to be, and what you're going to do.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.