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Intention Quotes - Page 4

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.64, Random House

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.500, Race Point Pub

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Robert Southey (1829). “Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society”, p.103

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.45, Library of America