#intention

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

— T. Scott McLeod

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

You’re the director of your life, so you deserve to play the lead. ↗

— Sandra Saenz

#direct #direction #director #intention #lead

Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#goals #intention #movement #success #experience

Hell is paved with good intentions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#good-intentions #hell #intentions #life

Good people left me breathless and wondering. How had they got that way? How good were they, anyway? How would it feel to be good? Then I hit middle age and suddenly I wanted to be a better person and to know that I was living a good life. ↗

— Judith O'Reilly

#humour #inspirational #middle-age #resolution #age

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended. ↗

— John Green

#fiction #imagination #intentional-fallcy #ontology #art

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

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#afterwards #becoming #decided #drama #drama school

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#every #every time #gonna #guy #i

I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#community #greater #i #improve #intentionally