Quotes About Intention

Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

A truth that's told with bad intention beats all the lies you can invent.

Your thoughts shape and mold the energy around you. You hold the power of creation in every thought.

Be aware, the content and focus of your prevailing thoughts is critical to the result you experience.

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the.

Even when the poet seems most himself… he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.

Grant himself.14 "Hereafter," he resolved, "I intend to be careful not to give them any news worth publishing."15

I haven't done anything--yet.

God hath ap pointed prayer as a help to our diligence, not as a cloak for our sloth.

so to make a good Christian, there is required a conscientious care to use all appointed means.

según el Dhamma, la ley de la naturaleza, la más importante es la acción mental. Los actos físicos o verbales asumen un significado totalmente distinto, dependiendo de la intención con la que estén hechos.

There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

In every human being, there are two wolves constantly fighting. One is fear, and the other is love. When Cork had asked which of the wolves won the battle, Meloux's answer had been: The one you feed. Always the one you feed.

It was a city built on promise, on compromise, on inspiration and empty rhetoric both, on history poorly remembered and easily bent, and once in a while, on good people with the best of intentions who battled against the distrust, misdirection, and deceit that was politics as usual. (Referring to Washington, D.C.)

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

All he knows is that he has done exactly what he was supposed to do.

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.

if you just take the outward, literal words of scripture and try to be obedient to the letter without desiring to be obedient to the full spirit of the passage, then it harms you rather than helps you.

God never intended the law to be the means of giving life. Rather it was designed to bring the knowledge of sin and to convict of sin.

Debemos ser en extremo cuidadosos De la semilla que nuestra mano sembrará; El amor del amor germinará, El odio del odio crecerá".