Quotes About Intention

What's important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

What's important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision the commission made up. It's up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.

Practice saying the word "love" to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

Negative thinking is praying for what we don't want

Only think, speak, and act on that which you want to be true

Our attitude tells the universe what we want

The thoughts you think today create the life you live tomorrow

Wanting to be is not the same as choosing to be

We create our Karma and we can change it

A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.

Imam M?lik said that to seek out Paradise is more than acceptable, though the motivation behind worship should ultimately be solely for the sake of God and fulfillment of His commands.

One should instead desire what will serve one's Hereafter.

As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

It is impossible to contemplate the word without the serious intention of doing justice to it in practical behavior. It demands love for God and our neighbor, and does so with such immediacy and unmistakable urgency that it is pointless even to pause before this demand unless we are willing to respond.

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.

Speechwriter Barton Swaim cheerfully explains why the opaque may be a virtue. "Using vague, slippery or just meaningless language," he writes, "is not the same as lying: it's not intended to deceive so much as to preserve options, buy time, distance oneself from others, or just to sound like you're saying something instead of nothing.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.

find God in the willingness of so many people to do the right thing, even when the right thing is difficult, expensive, or unappreciated, and to reject the wrong thing no matter how tempting or profitable.

Perhaps," said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

There is courage in speaking. We voice our differences, we share real feelings, we address a painful emotional issue, open a family secret, tell the truth. We take a clear position on things that matter to us. We clarify the limits of what we can or can't do. We speak not with the intention of getting comfortable but with the intention of being our best selves, even though we may be shaking in our boots.