Quotes About Intention

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

In everything one must consider the end.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

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

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

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.