Intent Quotes

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

Anger, Someone, Else

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, Work, Anger

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu

Good, Plans, Traveler

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake

Truth, Bad, Lies

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Titus Livius

End, Betray, However

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law

Perfection, Present

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
J. Michael Straczynski

Good, Heart, Joy

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
Warren Farrell

Life, Best, Listen

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett

Bad, Acting, Deceive

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Michael J. Fox

Good, Positive, Action

What is the quality of your intent?
Thurgood Marshall

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant

Judgment, Failures, Errors

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
Andrea Dworkin

Men, Power, Made

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.
Katy Perry

Life, Good, Hard

If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.
Megan Fox

Accept, Behind, Comedian

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes

Busy, Making, Luck

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
Kevin Mitnick

Legal, Whether, Individual

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
Elizabeth Bowen

Cannot, Close, Director

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.
Julie Burchill

Ignorance, Often, Awesome

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
Donald Cargill

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
Theodore Bikel

God, Purpose, Among

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
Vincent D'Onofrio

Different, Law, Show

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
Jock Sturges

Work, Between, Making

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
Jack Kevorkian

Life, End, Suffering

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Duke Ellington

Play, Act, Commit

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.
Bon Scott

Road, Stop, Fifteen

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
Robert Caro

Beautiful, Sometimes, Around

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
Gary Bauer

Often, Morality, Debate

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.
Alphonsus Liguori

Love, Good, God

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
Alex Campbell

Death, Taken, Suicidal

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