Intention Quotes
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan Paton -
Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer
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We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.
Oprah Winfrey -
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.
Bill Vaughan -
I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.
John Travolta -
You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.
Tony Palermo Papa Roach -
I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
Calvin Klein -
When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
Viktor Orban
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I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.
Nicholas Sparks -
I don't think I'm as bad as I'm made out to be. I did things in Philadelphia, but I don't have any intention of doing those things in St. Louis.
Richie Allen -
When I moved to L.A., I had no intention of really pursuing acting. I wanted to focus on stand-up. It's crazy to me that my acting career took off much faster than my stand-up career.
Nico Santos -
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.
E. M. Forster -
A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
Stephen Covey -
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
Odilon Redon -
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
Edgar Wright -
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
Anselm of Canterbury -
Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.
Brian Tracy
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I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.
J. Tillman -
The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey -
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.
Willard Gaylin -
There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
Cokie Roberts