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Quotes About Intention

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.
~ Charles Capps
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
~ Charles Darwin
Attempted good marriage with premeditation.
~ Charles de Leusse
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
~ Charles Dickens
You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don't mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.
~ Charles Dickens
What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)
~ Charles Dickens
My poor girl, you have not been very well taught how to make a home for your husband, but unless you mean with all your heart to strive to do it, you had better murder him than marry him — if you really love him.
~ Charles Dickens
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
~ Charles Eames
Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.
~ Charles Eames
As I mentioned earlier, the time to do is when you know what to do. When you don't know what to do, and act anyway, you are probably acting out of habit.
~ Charles Eisenstein
I can be whatever I will to be.
~ Charles F. Haanel
when you have learned to control yourself you will have found the "World Within" which controls the world without; you will have become irresistible; men and things will respond to your every wish without any apparent effort on your
~ Charles F. Haanel
Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind, out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view.
~ Charles F. Haanel
Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect; for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.
~ Charles F. Haanel
El oyente de mente embotada no tiene ninguna intención verdadera de investigar la Palabra ni de crecer. Sólo le gusta tener la seguridad de que va a eludir el infierno e ir al cielo.
~ Charles F. Stanley
aun cuando hagamos silencio, sutilmente estamos diciendo algo.
~ Charles F. Stanley
A man may have a perfect body, but if his emotions, mind, and will are not under the control of the Holy Spirit he will fail regularly and tragically as the husband, father, and follower God intends him to be.
~ Charles F. Stanley
If you were sprinkled as a child or christened, you have not been scripturally baptized. If you were immersed as an adult but had no intention of following Christ, you were not scripturally baptized. If you were sprinkled and have followed Christ since that time, you have not been scripturally baptized. If you were immersed and became a Christian later, you have not been scripturally baptized.
~ Charles F. Stanley
You ought to have fully and clearly in your own mind a good reason for everything you do, for everything you learn, for everything you eat, for everything you drink.
~ Alice Price, 1883
Many Buddhist practitioners recite the Five Remembrances daily. The fifth is, "My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.
~ Terri Guillemets
If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me...
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
At a certain point, some of us just sit down and watch the rest of our lives go by. Don't let it happen to you!
~ Terri Guillemets
Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after
~ Grace Lee Boggs