Quotes About Intention

You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation. It worked.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Our negative ceasing to possess must be accompanied by a positive choosing to be generous.

No human actions are truly random

The less consciously we drift with the wind, the more willingly we do it; the more consciously, the less willingly.

and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, mustn't he?

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

Der Mensch kann wohl tun was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen was er will.

A human being does at all times only what he wills, and yet does it necessarily. But that rests on the fact that he is what he wills : for out of what he is everything that he does at any time follows necessarily.

No man becomes this or that by wishing to be it, however earnestly.

Die, welche schwierige, dunkle, verflochtene, zweideutige Reden zusammensetzen, wissen ganz gewiss nicht recht, was sie sagen wollen, sondern haben nur ein dumpfes, nach einem Gedanken erst ringendes Bewusstsein davon; oft aber wollen sie sich selber und anderen verbergen, dass sie eigentlich nichts zu sagen haben.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

Only the carrying out stamps the resolve; till then, it is always a mere intention that can be altered; it exists only in reason, in the abstract. Only in reflection are willing and acting different; in reality they are one.

A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants.

Herkes istediÄŸini yapabilir, ama istediÄŸini isteyemez

Tan sólo escribe cosas dignas de ser leídas el que únicamente escribe para decir algo.

The original Confucian intention, as envisioned by Confucius and Mencius is, simply put, to cultivate ourselves and bring peace and comfort to others.

Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here.

I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.

Wasn't it evil to wish without moving- or to move without aim?

Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities among the chances of life.

To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.