Quotes About Intention

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

If there is a good will, there is great way.

What is the course and drift of your compact?

You gotta be cruel to be kind.

I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak.

some good I mean to do, Despite of mine own nature.

For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too much: that we would do We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues

For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 75By any indirection.

every plan breaks easily, Because the intention is a slave to memory At the moment of birth, it digs itself a grave, Like a fruit, that holds to a branch, while green. And when it matures, it falls itself from the three.

Take a deep breath and focus on your purpose—your Yes—in this situation. Ask yourself what you really want and what is really important here. In other words, shift from being reactive and focused on No, to being proactive and focused on Yes.

Your repetition can be intentional. You can use the same anchor phrase freshly each time, renewed by focusing on your underlying intention— the deeper Yes that lies within you. You can also humanize the repetition with a smile or acknowledgment.

There is much truth in the remark that we see only that which we look for, and to look energetically we must consciously look for something.

Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so.

Lui resterà con me. Non perché deve, ma perché vuole.

The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so. The thing was done.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

It has been well said, 'there is always more error than design in human affairs.

If you want to have a future, don't do anything with no future in it.

Toda la gente que se propone enderezar al mundo lo que en realidad quiere es enchuecarlo a su medida. No hay nada más torcido que un enderezador.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Exercise only with the intention to carry out a physical gain or to triumph over competitors," Hébert believed, "is brutally egoistic.

chequeando mentalmente mi lista de tareas (flexiona esas rodillas… pasitos de pájaro… no dejes huella)