Quotes About Intention

Everyday is a new chance to be a better person, to do good and correct past mistakes.

First say to yourself what you want to be; and then do what you have to do.

We're what we think we will be. What we say becomes reality, what we do not do becomes our reality.

Keep reminding yourself of your goals, keep telling yourself why exactly you're doing what you're doing.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions

Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)... and says, "Here, you can go."

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

That's what Aisha and I are doing. We're planting a garden with our words. Our future. Everything careful and chosen well so the shoots come up strong and straight.

Mirar los errores pasados con compasión no significa ser permisivo con ellos, sino ver en ciertas actuaciones nuestra ignorancia y no nuestra maldad. Quien ve ignorancia tras un error busca la corrección; quien ve maldad busca el castigo.

Más que sus ojos, su mirada. Miraba como queriendo decir algo y no diciéndolo.

Dejar una marca propia es cosa de vida o muerte, o de muerte solamente, porque la intención subterránea es pasar la muerte, es seguir existiendo después del fin.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Ginny looked at him in a puzzled way. "Are you in the habit of saying things you don't mean?" "There is a certain type of wit called sarcasm," said Lord Gerald loftily. Ginny's brow cleared. "Oh now I understand" she said. "You were just being nasty.

I've always found allegories kind of comforting. When you encounter people named Liar and Abstinence, you might not be crazy about them, but you know exactly what you're getting into.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.

the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep... By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.

Prayer is the way we write the future.

Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.

We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being" than "doing.

God does not answer vague prayers.

Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.