Intention Quotes - Page 14

I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

The intention of showing myself to the world has always been to be how I want to be and how I'm comfortable in the world, never to be anonymous. Right now, I'm just going with my instincts, and this is what I feel like doing. I'm always honest in what I put across.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

You do not grow stronger by accident - you grow stronger by intention.

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

There is always a gap between intention and action.