Quotes About Intent

To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

People don't buy what you do; people buy why you do it.

Forget not yet the tried intentOf such a truth as I have meant;My great travail so gladly spent,Forget not yet!

O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone's wellbeing or for your own benefit?

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

Everything happened exactly as I had intended it shouldn't.

illusory transparency of intent.

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

His heart was in the right place even if he went about it all wrong.

T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?

I don't want to be good; and I don't want to be bad: I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad: I want to be an active verb.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for it's own sake.

For me, whether I have money or not, it is far more important that there is an intent behind a cause that's pure and can change the lives of certain people. If that's there, then you will be able to get all the resources required.

Criminal conspiracy requires not only that the conspirators know that a crime is going to be committed, but that they knowingly intend to help each other commit the crime - and then commit certain overt acts in connection with that conspiracy.

Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.

When I signed in Colorado, I signed it with the intent of being there for the rest of my career. It wasn't meant to be.

Reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions.

14) Use the mind-intent, do not use muscular force. ? ?) ? ? ? ? ?; Shi si) Yong yi bu yong li. 15)

The American species (to the extent that there really is such a thing) is, of course, populist rather than conservative—and for a very forceful reason: America happens to be the only society in creation built by conscious human intent…and developed, by Europeans tired of Europe's ancient commitments, and determined,…each in his own way, on a "new beginning.

you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.