Intention Quotes

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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many… — Aristotle
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions… — Pema Chodron
That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things. — Rainer Maria Rilke
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.… — Hermann Hesse
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. — John O'Donohue
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation… — James Redfield
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. — Khalil Gibran
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's… — Richard Paul Evans
There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions… — Margaret Atwood
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless. — Kate DiCamillo
In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise. — Graham Greene
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the… — Michael Cunningham
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that… — Barack Obama
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,… — Ian Mcewan
You donâ€™t make art out of good intentions. — Gustave Flaubert
There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will… — Kate Chopin
Words are not that important when you recognize intentions. — Isabel Allende
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I… — Alan Paton

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