Quotes about Intention
"Begin with the end in mind" is to begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference or the criterion by which everything else is examined.
— Stephen Covey
You might work on your behavior—you could try harder, be more diligent, double your speed. But your efforts would only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster.
— Stephen Covey
If you visualize the wrong thing, you'll produce the wrong thing.
— Stephen Covey
By keeping that end clearly in mind, you can make certain that whatever you do on any particular day does not violate the criteria you have defined as supremely important, and that each day of your life contributes in a meaningful way to the vision you have of your life as a whole.
— Stephen Covey
If there is one message to glean from this wisdom, it is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.
— Stephen Covey
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.
— Stephen Covey
In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb.
— Stephen Covey
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law.
— Stephen Covey
Sow a thought, reap an action.
— 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
Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.
— Deepak Chopra
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
— St. Augustine