Quotes About Intention

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

We will not be caught in no man's land.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

The real work of relationships is not occasional, or even daily: it is minute-to-minute. In this triggered moment right now, which path am I going to take? Rather than being overridden by your history, you can stop, pause, and choose.

in our reactions, we are not simple passengers. Over time, with training and practice, we can change our responses. We can shift from being reactive individuals to being proactive teammates who, in cooperation with our partner, intentionally shape the transaction between us.