Intention Quotes
1516 quotes by 1076 authors
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Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.
— Robert Breault
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For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such…
— Pema Chodron
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Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.
— Thomas a Kempis
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It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.
— Steven Gerrard
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If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It…
— Marc Chagall
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My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters…
— Unknown Author
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Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel…
— Stephen Covey
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Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude,
— Jean Chretien
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Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause…
— Noah Levine
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Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
— Jimmy Breslin
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
— Ted Koppel
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When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
— Samuel Johnson
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The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others,…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.
— Albert Einstein
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But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating…
— John Cornyn
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