Quotes About Intention

Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

As man acts, God reacts.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Boys do what they can; men do what they want

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift.

you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.

the Sponsoring Thought behind every supplication is that you do not have now what you wish. That Sponsoring Thought becomes your reality.