I rarely attend meetings of my own volition.    From LearnThat.org. 

The exercise of their volition we construe as revolt- George Meredith.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Followed my father of my own volition.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The actual exercise of that power, by directing any particular action, or its forbearance, is that which we call volition or willing.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference

It is true, there is a thing which we call volition, or an act of the mind; but this does not produce the external change by which it is followed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference

The difficulty is to use it, to make the effort which the word volition implies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference

This system presides over the functions of animal life known as volition, sensation, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath] Reference

Every human action is caused by the person's volition, which is caused by a certain motive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guess Who Was At The Party?] Reference

Not one thing, but a series of two things: the state of mind called a volition, followed by an effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

The psychical forces are concerned with free volition, that is to say, impulsive movement and sensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference

The peculiar nature of that thing called volition, can do nothing, can have no influence, while it is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference

But he who exercises volition, that is to say the subsistence, for instance Peter, is spoken of as willing.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference

We still ask, How can a man be responsible for an act, or volition, which is necessitated to arise in his mind by.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference

When natural causes are liable to be set aside and neutralized by what is called volition, the word Science is out of place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists] Reference

When natural causes are liable to be set aside and neutralised by what is called volition, the word Science is out of place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

If a drug-trained dog decides to jump in of her own volition, that is considered sufficient probable cause for a legal search.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

But those objective adjustments which fit it to emerge and seek in an outer world its full expression I shall call the volition (B).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Goodness] Reference

When the sensorial faculty of desire or aversion is exerted so as to cause fibrous motions, it is termed volition; which is said in Sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

One more time: a volunteer gives of his or her own volition which is why it is to be admired.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Barack Obama will require you to work."] Reference

Some admirable writers have a repugnance to using the word "volition" in speaking of the brutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

There is no feeling and no volition which is not for the phenomenalist a content of consciousness and nothing else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

Its force is borrowed entirely from a prior volition which is accounted as continuing in some result produced by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Now, the knowledge that we are thus restricted as to bodily action imposes that kind of restraint upon volition which is termed rational.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind and Motion and Monism] Reference

His landlord said Mr. Farnes left of his own volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Tailor Needles Savile Row, Gets Himself a (Law)Suit] Reference

No, any action we take on earth is of our own volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference

My hand moved towards it, apparently of its own volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

(Today, 70 percent enter hospitals of their own volition.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden From View] Reference

This accounts for their capacity for sensation and volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

And the nature of the soul at this stage is volition throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

"I don't think Hollywood is going to change of its own volition.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CHANGE OF DIRECTION] Reference

Most experts resist the notion that Halcion can steal a person's volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Dreams Or Nightmare?] Reference

A single volition puts him in touch with the characters and the movement of the tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference

They aren't drafted; they, of their own volition, raised their right hand and took an oath to serve.    From Wordnik.com.  ['My Other Family'] Reference

When you sit long enough the low-lying scrub begin to sway not with the wind but of their own volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of Big Sur] Reference

But it seems right to treat as willed by man much more than falls under the head of conscious and deliberate volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

Those people will look back on this time and see this was when they chose to live as a conscious act, an act of volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Judith Rich: Growing Through Adversity: Victim or Victorious?] Reference

They robbed me of my consciousness, of my power of volition, of my capacity to think, -- they made me as wax in her hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

But when he placed it on the ground, to rest his jaw I'm guessing, the tiny creature twitched and turned on its own volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat crunch] Reference

It is clear to me that it had reached the point where her dreams had as much control over her body as her own waking volition.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Badlands] Reference