Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great — Abdullah ibn Mubarak Copy Share Image
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
It might not always work, but I think it's just good to experiment and try and have that as your intention, you… — Griff Copy Share Image
I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right,… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Good intentions don't really matter if they don't lead to good actions. Sometimes those with good intentions do us more harm than… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell. — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Being special and important in the eyes of one person with the right intention is much more important than to be special… — Prem Tihan (Shafiq Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Let go of your ego's need to be right. When you're in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I love, people who love me. I… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
It was simply this: silence is not a neutral position, whatever your intentions. Silence automatically supports the status quo. When you are… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one:… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a baby is born in Gaza and is not registered with the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, that baby does not… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Someone once said that innovation is a done idea. I agree. I believe that creativity is the individual development and conceptualization and… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The intention behind the high difficulty of the games I direct is to evoke a feeling of joy and accomplishment in the… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action,… — Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.” — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics,… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. — John Milton Copy Share Image
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Energy flows where our intention goes... Instead of 'Having A Great Day' Let's 'Create A Good Day.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off? — Cheryl Heller Copy Share Image
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
“intention alone isn’t sufficient. Goodness is proved through action rather than ideas.” — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into… — George Washington Copy Share Image