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Quotes About Intention

Where more is meant than meets the ear.
~ John Milton
Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live." And
~ John Piper
Don't waste another day of your life.
~ John Piper
himself. This is the meaning of his coming. This
~ John Piper
En esta época del año nos enfocamos en el significado de la venida del Hijo de Dios al mundo. Y la intención de nuestra celebración debería ser la misma intención por la que Él vino, la cual está resumida en Lucas 19:10: "El Hijo del hombre vino a buscar y a salvar lo que se había perdido".
~ John Piper
lo que no se hace consciente, se manifiesta en nuestras vidas como destino».
~ John Purkiss
And then I started driving to the beaches, I guess to make sure there was a whole world ready to welcome me when I finally decided to join it—if I ever decided to. I always came there with the intention of meeting someone. But then I would see a screaming fairy—and suddenly I'd be ashamed. It's very strange—but I couldnt bear to look into his eyes, afraid, I guess, that he'd look back at me with recognition.
~ John Rechy
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
~ John Ruskin
Successful leaders need more than good intentions; they need to transform hopes and plans into results. Noble failure may be poetic but it is also unsatisfying.
~ John Shaw
It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands. Still more obviously true is it, that by their own hands only can any positive and durable improvement of their circumstances in life be worked out.
~ John Stuart Mill
Central to this understanding is the fact that schools are not failing. On the contrary, they are spectacularly successful in doing precisely what they are intended to do, and what they have been intended to do since their inception.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The dark side of the Welfare State midwifed by Beatrice Webb and the Fabian socialists is not its superficial purpose of being kind, but its intention of killing with kindness, and thus protecting the interests of the better people, non-violently.
~ John Taylor Gatto
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
~ John Updike
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
~ John Updike
exactly that should
~ John Walker
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
~ John Wayne
Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.
~ John Wayne
Nikolas was the conscious decision of his heart.
~ John Wiltshire
We must do what we must to do
~ Ellen G White
If you don't know where you are going, you keep doing something because you enjoy it. You keep doing it, making choices, and noticing the consequences until it's pleasing to you and you want to stop.
~ Ellen J. Langer
Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
~ Ellen Raskin
Quality … has to do with intention.
~ Elliott Erwitt
If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
~ Elmer Rice
One thing was clear. He had to convince Stella that he chose her. That he would choose her next time, the next day, the next year, in another life. That she was the only one he ever truly wanted, and the only woman he could have lived with.
~ Eloisa James