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DON'T MISTAKE ACTIVITY FOR ACHIEVEMENT
— John Wooden
The smallest good dead is better than the best intention
— John Wooden
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
— Aristotle
It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken.
— Robert Frost
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
— Maya Angelou
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
— Michelangelo
Goals are what we do. Purposes are why we do what we do.
— Patrick Morley
Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
— Exodus 32:12
“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.
— Exodus 32:22
or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
— Numbers 35:23
As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
— 1 Chronicles 28:9
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
— Job 6:26