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Quotes About Intention

A boca podia ser o cálix, os lábios a pátena. Faltava dizer a missa nova, por um latim que ninguém aprende, e é a língua católica dos homens. Não me tenhas por sacrílego, leitora minha devota; a limpeza da intenção lava o que puder haver menos curial no estilo.
~ Machado de Assis
Quantas intenções viciosas há assim que embarcam, a meio caminho, numa frase inocente e pura! Chega a fazer suspeitar que a mentira é, muita vez, tão involuntária como a transpiração.
~ Machado de Assis
O que eu peço à crítica vem a ser — intenção benévola, mas expressão franca e justa. Aplausos, quando os não fundamenta o mérito, afagam certamente o espírito e dão algum verniz de celebridade; mas quem tem vontade de aprender e quer fazer alguma coisa, prefere a lição que melhora ao ruído que lisonjeia.
~ Machado de Assis
A vantagem de contratar com o céu é que intenção vale dinheiro.
~ Machado de Assis
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
~ Madeleine Albright
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Tell your sister I'm all right," Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. "Tell her my intentions are good." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," Charles intoned.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We do wrong, with all the best will in the world. And sometimes we do right without even knowing it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Happiness, he said, warming his hands around a fresh cup of coffee, is a choice. "You have to brew it in yourself. Even from a lump of food, we choose each grain to suit our need. Likewise, in the philosophical manner, we choose to be who we are.
~ Madeline Drexler
Our work is an ongoing struggle with unintended consequences. We must try to narrow the gap, which is sometimes a gulf, between what we intend and the results we achieve.
~ Maile Meloy
Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions
~ Savania China
You become what you digest into your spirit. Whatever you think about, focus on, read about, talk about, you're going to attract more of into your life. Make sure they're all positive.
~ Germany Kent
Have an intention, take action, and then learn on the way to success.
~ Debasish Mridha
First, it is essential to determine precisely what you wantto achieve. Just wanting to be "successful" is too general.
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
Living a life without setting goals is like sailing a ship without a planned course. You are likely to end up somewhere you didn't intend to go!
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
The key to failure is ignoring Cosmic Ordering.
~ Stephen Richards
Success is when everything that goes wrong, fits in your plan.
~ Gary Rudz
The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the decisions you make each day.
~ Mensah Oteh
Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?
~ Mensah Oteh
Decide on the future you want to experience, then find out the habits that will produce it and practice them daily.
~ Mensah Oteh
Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and create it?
~ Mensah Oteh