Quotes About Intention

What we condemn most in another person is the conscious intention to do harm.

how one uses one's attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds—and lives—are largely shaped by how we use them.

it is in believing one thing while intending to communicate another that every lie is born.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

To ADDRESS  (ADDRE'SS)   v.a.[addresser, Fr. from dereçar, Span. from dirigo, directum, Lat.]1. To prepare one's self to enter upon any action; as, he addressed himself to the work. It lifted up its head, and did addressItself to motion, like as it would speak.Shakesp.Hamlet.

love.Taylor.11. To bear proportion to. He desired, that proper officers might search me; for probably I might carry several weapons, which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.Swift'sGulliver's Travels.12. To perform what is endeavoured or intended by

If I regard my intention, gratitude, for a life preserved by you, and for a sense of my social duties (soul as well as body indebted to you, tho' a Protestant yourself) will not suffer it. Is there then nobody whom we can blame for the calamity befallen us? — How strangely is that calamity circumstanced! But is there so irreconcileable a difference between the two religious?

Sabrina: "But you don't believe in marriage." Linus: "Yes, I do. It's why I've never married.

The motivating source of your energy is your underlying intention. It's the motivation behind your choices, not the choices themselves, that create the resonant frequencies you project. No matter what the nature of the decision is, it's actually the intention behind it that permeates your energetic field.

Your physical action increases your attraction.Exercise, stretch, move, and let go. Every time you move your body with the intention to move out your old, unhealthy feelings and thoughts, you make a dynamic shift in your frequencies.

And note then: you can killjoy not as a deliberate or intentional act; you might even be trying to participate in the joy of others. You can killjoy because you are not properly attuned to the requirements of a social system.

my intention that people will feel like throttling her

Before the end of the date, he had proposed.

Do you think anyone in the history of this world ever set out to fight for the wrong side?

Just remember: the heart! Start there, and you can't go wrong.

Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn"t the point.It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not.

When you only had words, you had to make up for things, say what you might not need to otherwise.

feeling and action are always linked

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.

The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.