Quotes About Intention

The statement "I love you," when said with kindness and tenderness, can be a genuine expression of love. But what about "I love you?" The question mark changes the whole meaning of those three words.

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time. EPHESIANS 5:15-16 (ESV) I

The emphasis is not on what you are doing but on why you are doing it.

You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. —Genesis 50:20

If we think of love as a feeling, we shall be frustrated when we can't always work up that feeling. When we realize love is primarily an action, we are ready to use the tools we have to love better.

kind of love requires effort and discipline.

you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Among the Ethiopians it is well known that monkeys deliberately do not speak so they will not be obliged to work.

Se apretó el corazón con ambas manos con toda intención de hacerlo callar.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger of Henry V to the brewer's draught horse and the racehorse, are real; for here Man has played the god, subduing Nature to his intention, and ennobling or debasing life for a set purpose. And what can be done with a wolf can be done with a man.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future

Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds

I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

He was doctrinally convinced that there was a total absence of merit in himself; but that doctrinal conviction may be held without pain when the sense of demerit does not take a distinct shape in memory and revive the tingling of shame or the pang of remorse. Nay, it may be held with intense satisfaction when the depth of our sinning is but a measure for the depth of forgiveness, and a clenching proof that we are peculiar instruments of the divine intention.

our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

We read, indeed, that the walls of Jericho fell down before the sound of trumpets,39 but we nowhere hear that those trumpets were hoarse and feeble. Doubtless they were trumpets that gave forth clear ringing tones, and sent a mighty vibration through brick and mortar. But the oratory of the Rev. Amos resembled rather a Belgian railway-horn, which shows praiseworthy intentions inadequately fulfilled.

I have serious things to do now. I have a living to give away.

A character at unity with itself –that performs what it intends, subdues every counteracting impulse, and has no visions beyond the distinctly possible –is strong by its very negations.

The shortest answer is doing.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

Too often, politicians fail to relate what they advocate to the kind of society they want to build, or they dress up policy in rhetoric which belies their actual intention. Meanwhile Joe Public is left wondering what on earth this bunch are all about and how their vision of a good society differs from that of the other lot.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.