#intention

Success doesn't come to you; you go to it. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#failure #inspirational #intention #persistence #positive-thinking

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.” “The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certainty. “So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed. ↗

— Kirsten Beyer

#peace #principles #equality

Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform ↗

— Norman Mac Donald

#good #intentions #imagination

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#intention #kindness #logic #love #philosophy

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ↗

— Xun Zi

#caused #evil #goodness #human #human nature

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#ask #best #cannot #even #few

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#cooperation #create #deal #intentional #local

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#believe #capital #conception #death #except

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#fear #his #holy #intention #just

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries