Intention Quotes - Page 6

• It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

  Joseph Addison

  Mind, Action, Good Intentions

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.76

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• It’s the age-old concept of like attracts like, or the law of attraction. You get back what you put out, so you might as well think positively, focus on visualizing what you want instead of getting distracted by what you don’t want, and send the universe your good intentions so that it can send them right back.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Focus

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.89, Penguin

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• The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

  Neil Jordan

  Expression, Organization, People

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• We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

  Amy Dickinson

  Best Intentions

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• The most important thing is to figure out Your goal in life. If Your intentions and methods are correct,
  there is no way You will not achieve it.

  Arjun Rampal

  Goal, Important, Way

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• Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

  Jasper Johns

  Mind, Consciousness, Fragments

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• I brought killer intensity to my workouts… It’s not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring something to it… What was your intention? If you are not believing with all fervour and relentlessness in what it is you want to do, no one is going to do that for you.

  Lynn Jennings

  Workout, Believe, Want

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• Feeling good is the primary intention

  Danielle LaPorte

  Feel Good, Feelings, Primaries

  Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.79, Sounds True

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• I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Program, Missions

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• I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

  Rupert Friend

  People, World, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

  Isaac Pitman

  Becoming, Shorthand

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• Attention with intention gets results worthy of mention.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Attention, Results, Worthy

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• The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Evil, World

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

  Don Marquis

  Civilization, Feet, Atheism

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.72, Doubleday

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• If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Peace, Taken, Thinking

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• In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

  Machado de Assis

  Party, Heaven, Ordinary

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson (1998). “Dom Casmurro”, p.146, Oxford University Press

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• As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

  Marla Gibbs

  Horizon, Want, Retiring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

  Brendan Gill

  Levels, Scales, New Yorkers

  BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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• Your intention to love, no matter what, is the absolute key to happiness.

  Robert Holden

  Happiness, Attitude, Keys

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.185, Hay House, Inc

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• The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Advise, Ifs

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• I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

  Cee Lo Green

  Believe, Balance, Vices

  "Cee Lo is water and a wig-wearing 'closet freak' on solo debut" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. April 18, 2002.

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• The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

  Walter E. Williams

  Policy, Crucial, Effects

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• It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Spirit, Action, Tough

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• It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

  Anne Bronte

  Feelings, Teeth, Good Intentions

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

  Publilius Syrus

  Delay, Merit, Protection

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