Quotes About Intention

Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

I always try to have a positive and warm intention that is not about me. It is easy to make everything about yourself. But you take the weight off when we make it about the audience. It's about the joy you can bring to somebody else instead of the joy that you get from doing it.

I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

of love. Yes, that was it: he thought I meant to proposition

No use denying it. God was up to something.

Girls are always saying things like, "I'm so unhappy that I'm going to overdose on aspirin," but they'd be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

The way in which we go to the grocery store may tell us everything about the way in which we live a life. The way we tend the life force in a plant may be the way we tend our own life force. We are exquisitely coherent.

I didn't understand why I could not control myself despite my best intentions.

I want you," he says. "You said you didn't know what I wanted from you. I'm telling you. I want you. I want you to be mine. That's all I know for sure.

With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be

To console Pippin about the treachery of Gollum, Gandalf reminds him that "a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend" (3.89).

What a mystery the human person is. Sometimes horrible effects of our choices come that we in no way intend. Sometimes the difference between what we think we are doing and what we are actually doing is total. But it is the inner intention that then characterizes what we do or do not do.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.