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Quotes About Intent

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Superficial goals lead to superficial results
~ Attila the Hun
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
~ Paul Nitze
Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.
~ Tom Webster
You have to stay focused. You cannot take your eye of your goal
~ Donald Trump
What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!
~ Donald Trump
The Goal is the keep the GOAL the GOAL
~ Dan John
Goals reflect your choice of destination.
~ Earl Nightingale
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
~ Seneca the Younger
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
~ Robert McCloskey
It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken.
~ Robert Frost
When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)
~ Unknown
Love at first sight is a lustful ambivalence with a deliberate intent.
~ Unknown
Saying to someone you love them isn't enough, acting it the way you truly meant says it all.
~ Unknown
Be careful what you wish for is a very useful adage in all things magical.
~ Unknown
I had a plan, but it was mostly "keep the hostiles off the ship," which is not so much a plan as a statement of hopeful intent.
~ Martha Wells
I have a plan." This was true. "I just don't know whether it will actually work or not." This, unfortunately, was also true.
~ Martha Wells
remembered the main reason I was doing this was to
~ Martha Wells
The New Frontier of which I speak," he told the delegates, "is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
~ Unknown
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence' Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Proverbs 31:10
~ Martina Cole
nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
~ Mary Shelley
I would disappear, only to come home reinvented. I would be unrecognizable upon my fleeting returns. This fantasy was realized, but not quite the way I had intended. In deciding to remake myself, I managed to avoid the fact that I would also, by definition, have to erase what self there was to begin with. I began to wonder, many years later, if total erasure had been my intent all along.
~ Marya Hornbacher
In my head, I was getting "gangsta," which I've always felt showed greater intent than getting "gangster" in that it expresses a willful unlawfulness even upon its own linguistic representation.
~ Mat Johnson
Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.
~ Matt Haig