Quotes About Intention

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

the intention of every man acting according to virtue is to follow the rule of reason, wherefore the intention of all the virtues is directed to the same end, so that all the virtues are connected together in the right reason of things to be done, viz. prudence,

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

Three things are required for a war to be just. Indeed, the first requirement is that the ruler at whose command the war is to be waged have the lawful authority to do so. . . . Second, there needs to be a just cause to wage war, namely, that the enemy deserve to have war waged against it because of some wrong it has inflicted. . . . Third, those waging war need to have a right intention, namely, an intention to promote good and avoid evil.

In the significance of names, that from which the name is derived is different sometimes from what it is intended to signify, as for instance, this name "stone" [lapis] is imposed from the fact that it hurts the foot [loedit pedem], but it is not imposed to signify that which hurts the foot, but rather to signify a certain kind of body; otherwise everything that hurts the foot would be a stone [*This refers to the Latin etymology of the word "lapis" which has no place in English].

Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.

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

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

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

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.