Quotes About Intention

We may unintentionally hold up our own or another's well-intended behavior as the standard to meet, rather than the Lord's gentle, steady, and compassionate guidelines and commandments.

Aveva l'abitudine di dire che una buona volontà priva di una dose di buon senso poteva causare catastrofi ancora più grandi delle conseguenze di azioni compiute con malanimo e stupidità.

It is good to have a goal. You should hold on to it. People who have lost sight of their goal often begin to live in a careless manner.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Une action faite par générosité pure se retourne toujours contre son auteur.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Be not simply good; be good for something.

let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Si tenéis alguna empresa ante vosotros, tratad de hacerla con las ropas viejas. A los hombres les hace falta, no algo con lo que hacer, sino algo que hacer, o mejor, algo que ser. Tal vez no deberíamos procurarnos un traje nuevo, por harapiento y sucio que esté el viejo, hasta no habernos conducido, empeñado o embarcado de tal modo que podamos sentirnos hombres nuevos en el viejo.

In the long run, you hit only what you aim for.

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your intention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Never look back unless ypu are planning to go that way.

As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

To affect the quality of the day... that is the art of life.