Quotes About Intention

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's plan is for you to create anything-everything-whatever you want.

I'm going to marry you one day, you know." "Is that a promise?" "If you want it to be.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.

I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.

Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.

The Secret's message is to empower people. Its message releases people from feeling like victims and gives them the knowledge to intentionally create their lives the way they want.

Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.

Martin White, who stood up and said his piece. Claimed that he was a good Free-State man, but a free white state man, and he intended to obey the laws, and the rest of us should as well.

It's not about how you feel. It's about what you do.

We decide who and what we will love and who and what we will hate. We decide what we will do with the love and hate. Every day we decide. It was this that revealed who we were, not the color of our flesh or the shape of our eyes or the language we spoke.

And even as I'm telling her what I have done with my life, I realize that I have in fact learned what I am good at, what she told me so very long ago I needed to figure out. I am good at loving people, I have always been good at loving people, and I don't suppose there's any skill better than that. Surely that is what God intended all along for me.

The future does not happen just by chance.

Let "I intend to find happiness" become "I intend to find happiness to benefit myself and the others in my life." Let "I set the intention to feel no more misery" become "I set the intention to help all beings escape from misery, beginning with myself." You can convert any poison into medicine by applying the proper wisdom.

generosity as a means of controlling someone is no gift at all. It's a curse.

It was too easy to lose focus, to scatter my energies, to fragment—perhaps (and this was the hard part) because I lacked the sense of purpose that would bind all the loose pieces of myself together.