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Quotes about Intention

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
— Seneca
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community [even if their intentions are ever so earnest], but the person who loves those around them will create community.
— Shane Claiborne
What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.
— Oprah Winfrey
Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.
— Ayn Rand
From the moment he'd been elected Speaker in January, John Boehner had insisted that House Republicans had every intention of following through on their campaign pledge to end what he called my "job-crushing spending binge of the last two years.
— Barack Obama
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
— Stephen Covey
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
— Stephen Covey
Best way to predict your future is to create it.
— Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation, to all things.
— Stephen Covey
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
— Stephen Covey
Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb.
— Stephen Covey