Intention Quotes

"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us 'like the fabled specter-ships,' which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve."
-Grenville Kleiser

"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."
-Walt Kelly

"To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."
-Carl Jung

"I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself."
-Oprah Winfrey

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."
-Seneca

"It is the intention that, in due course, the company will carry out a capital reconstruction to enable the restoration of dividend payments at the appropriate time."
-John Macarthur

"Now I've got to go out and give myself the best chance possible to live up to my intention."
-Bret Boone

"My intention is to return. That decision rests with the Marlins. They haven't said anything specific, and I haven't asked."
-Dean Treanor

"I don't care. I want it. I welcome it. Whoever comes out on top is going to be the better for it. And I have all the intention that I'm going to be coming out on top of everything."
-Martin Biron

"Responsible. Chris Brown gave it to me to remember him by, as a legacy. I have every intention of sharing this information...."
-Ken Fox

"Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention."
-Sharon Salzberg

"I don't accept that, the Canadian public wouldn't accept that and Hockey Canada won't accept that. We're Canada. Our standard is gold and every tournament we go into, we go into with the intention of competing for a gold medal."
-Blair Mackasey

"That should eliminate any need to use eminent domain. It is not - 'not' with a capital 'N' - our intention to go that way."
-Bill May

"People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention."
-Bob Costas

"There's never any intention to satirize the church or poke fun at religion in any way."
-Jack Kenny

"He made a mistake. All of us make mistakes. But it was not his intention to harm the housing authority."
-Larry Hardaway

"China is committed to the path of peaceful development. China has no intention nor does it have the capability to rigorously develop armaments."
-Jiang Enzhu

"They can pay or file their intention to pay by the end of the day tomorrow."
-Jose Joaquin Cedillo

"Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intention, and they're as far apart as Heaven and Hell."
-Ben Harper

"We really have to assess the affect of the store closings on our headquarters operation. It is the intention to reduce corporate expenses."
-Jack Ferry

"The intention is not just sexual, but it's intimate in a sacred way."
-Chenzira Kahina

"They all have the intention, but no capability. They cannot win and they cannot succeed because many have turned around."
-Lt. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon

"He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement."
-Tom Gavin

"Adoptive parents have to be careful because there are pregnant women out there (who) really don't have any intention of giving their child up for adoption."
-Lori Klockau

"He has no intention of living in the ghetto of heaven or even its suburbs."
-Jan Dargatz

"The government will not be out there declaring initiatives of confidence when they're not, ... We'll be very clear and very consistent in our approach. But our intention is to govern."
-Tony Valeri

"It is not my intention to put people on tenterhooks but that is how it is because of the weather."
-Daljit Singh