Quotes About Intention

There's a word a friend of mine coined for that feeble gesture we make as if we're going to hold the door, when in reality we've got no intention of it. He calls it "to elefain.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.

Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.

By their fruits ye shall know them.