Intention Quotes

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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,… — Charles Baudelaire
...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by… — William P. Young
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a… — Wallace Stegner
Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to… — Bernhard Schlink
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love… — M. Scott Peck
I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that… — Mario Puzo
It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions… — Amy Tan
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. — Robert Louis Stevenson
the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly… — Viktor E. Frankl
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even… — Vladimir Nabokov
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over,… — Muriel Spark
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must… — E. M. Forster
Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be… — Michael Cunningham
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for… — Franz Kafka
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I… — Nick Hornby
What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us… — Albert Schweitzer
Now, revealing that you're a keeper is no guarantee that this guy won't just walk away. Some men really are just sport fishing and have… — Steve Harvey
Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up… — Michael Ende

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