Quotes About Intention

Coincidence was possible. But what was much more likely was enemy action.

Change is a result of what you do now, not what you intend to do tomorrow.

Mrs. Heccomb tapped on the glass, and the taxi, which already intended stopping, stopped dead with a satirical jerk.

Carelessness, when it's continual, is as bad as intentional jerkiness.

I know now one must plan one's old age as surely as one plans any other stage of life. The tragedy of Cousin Josie's life is that she never knew what she wanted at any age—only what she did not want. She never wanted to marry nor to pursue a career, and in life, unlike grammar, double negatives do not produce an affirmative.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

They were accustomed to think of the Abbé as one of those men who pass rapidly from point to point, from task to task, so intent on redeeming the time because the days are evil that they have no leisure to pause and enquire if perhaps the bad days have a few good points about them after all.

If you can't marry the man you love, then the next best thing is to marry one who is easily managed. . . . But the best thing of all, of course, is to marry a man beloved as well as manageable, as she herself intended to do.

do not like the people who read fifteen books by a man who has written three worth reading.' 'But if one enjoys reading, one must be resigned to many disappointments.' 'Disappointments – certainly. But if you read a book and are disappointed, it is because you intended to be pleased.

I wasn't aware that not disappointing you was an option, so I'm afraid I haven't taken any steps to avoid it.

Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she wasn't, and it seemed she would never be, but it was clearly something she aspired to, since all the people she respected were.

The earliest and most abiding influence on Hadrian was his love of Greece. It is here, and with Hadrian's intention to create a new golden age, that the uniqueness of his reign and legacy begins.

She came to understand that people had to decide, really, how they were going to live.

that love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn't choose it.

We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go.

A man can do what he wants. But he can't want what he wants.

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

But if my acts are good, sincerely intended, Then no matter where I turn my steps, The merit gained will honor me With its resulting benefits.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

You need to believe in it first, to make it happen.

Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the battle.

The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes: not by obscuring his vision and intention by ideas of 'right' and 'wrong'.73