Quotes About Intention

Every choice you make is a right choice. What is really important is not the choice but the reason why you make it. Any choice made from fear is a disempowering choice.

didn't have a mother or a father, but a stranger willingly chose me to be his son. You had a mother and father, and they let strangers take you. No, General, don't pity me. You're the one who's had the worse deal." It was shocking and it was true. The extraordinary clarity of his assessment hit her so hard that she almost gasped. It told her things she didn't want to know about herself. None of them changed her intentions.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

In our reflecting and reasoning age, a man is not worth much who cannot give a good reason for everything, no matter how bad or crazy. Everything in the world that has been done wrong, has been done wrong for the very best of reasons.

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

No man ever became wise by chance.

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.