Intention Quotes · Page 23

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

— Susan Sontag

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

— Adolf Hitler

Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

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

— Rick Warren

Don't criticize my actions without knowing my motives…

— Anonymous

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

— Mary Hunter Austin

“You were created with intention, not manufactured for approval.”

— Deborah Patrick

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

— Isabel Allende

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

— Deepak Chopra

“In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was…

— Meg Cabot

I will announce my intention to totally renegotiate NAFTA, one of the worst deals America has ever made.

— Donald Trump

We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really…

— Grace Chatto

“intention alone isn’t sufficient. Goodness is proved through action rather than ideas.”

— Claudia Gray

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

— Liev Schreiber

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was…

— Helen Garner

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

...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day…

— Ford Madox Ford

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as…

— Robert Bringhurst

I can assure the Court that I have no intention and there is no risk of my reactivating the Megaupload.com website or…

— Kim Dotcom

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't…

— Benjamin E. Mays

“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by…

— Kevin L. Michel

I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I…

— Julianne Hough

And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up…

— Michelle Yeoh

My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For…

— Graciela Iturbide

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked…

— Viggo Mortensen

I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift…

— Philip Zimbardo

A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated…

— Rajneesh

The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be…

— Alexander Hamilton

It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because…

— Matt Reeves

Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love…

— John Calvin

I don't feel that Shaunae Miller cheated me because she didn't break any rules or anything like that, but I do feel…

— Allyson Felix

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

“Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.”

— Tim Fargo

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

— John Irving

We either live with intention or exist by default.

— Kristin Armstrong

Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

— Deepak Chopra

“Success or failure is proportionate to intention.”

— Donna Labermeier

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

— George Orwell

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

— Thucydides