Quotes About Intention

Life is full of sacrifices. Let them be for something.

You are what your deep driving desire is As your deep driving desire is, so is your will As your will is so is your deed As your deed is so is your destiny.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Right intention says essentially: treat yourself and others with kindness and compassion while living in alignment with your deepest values.

In the Buddhist tradition, intention is about living each moment with integrity and in keeping with what matters most to you. Buddhists

Wirkliche Wahrheit unterscheidet sich von jeder phrasenhaften Wahrhaftigkeit dadurch, daß sie etwas ganz Bestimmtes will, daß etwas geschieht – nämlich daß sie den Menschen löst, frei macht.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous." Richard M. Nixon

Cluny was created with the intention that it should be free from lay control, and was answerable only to the pope.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.

A Blessing is a powerful and positive intention that can transform situations and people. Whenever you give a Blessing, a Blessing returns to enfold you.

I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them that were in hell some thousands of years before, and yet be still resolved to continue their punishment on them to all eternity.

Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!

the Holy Spirit is the author of this work in us, so that although it is our duty, it is his grace and strength whereby it is performed; as also the manner how it is wrought by him, which is principally intended: [1.]

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives… Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

The plan is not the goal.

Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).

I'm going to shoot him twice now. We still need to bring him in alive, I said. I didn't say I was going to kill him, Powell replied. Just that I was going to shoot him twice.

Despite the fact that he fully intended to be one of them, Marce managed to feel resentment toward them, toward the people who could, in fact, leave their problems behind through the simple application of money.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over...

To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

Sometimes I think a do-gooder is the most dangerous thing in the world.

For I truly believe that people call their lives to them the way you'd whistle up a dog. I seem to thrive in small frustrations and make them up when I don't have them. This is not abnormal. In fact it is very supernormal.