intention quotes

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Our intention creates our reality.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.