Set Powerful Intentions Quotes
Nothing focuses a man's power like deciding exactly what he wants. A clear target pulls energy, effort, and opportunity toward it, while a vague wish scatters all three. This Purpose path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on goals, clarity, and intention. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Slow success builds character; fast success builds ego.”
“Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.”
“Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months.”
“A person’s character is a reflection of their dominant thoughts and actions.”
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
“In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by them.”
“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
“Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.”
“Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you.”
“Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.”
“You have to set yourself goals so you can push yourself harder. Desire is the key to success.”
“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.”
“Begin with the end in mind.”
“Goals help you channel your energy into action.”
“Good intention brings success in everything you do. Intention is always supported by universal energy because it’s a vital ingredient for manifestation.”
“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
“When you are truly clear about what you want, the whole universe stands on tiptoe waiting to assist you in miraculous and amazing ways to manifest your dream or intention.”
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
“Vague goals produce vague results.”
“Intention is one with cause and effect.”
“I had ambition not only to go farther than any one had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go.”
“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.”
“Your decisions make the circumstances. Your circumstances don’t make the decisions.”
“No man has ever been known to succeed without applying the principle of definiteness of purpose.”
“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.”
“Focus your energy, guard your time, train your mind, and the world will bend to your will”
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.”
“Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.”
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.”
“Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.”
“Great companies start because the founders want to change the world, not make a fast buck.”
“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”
“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”
“Our intention creates our reality.”
“Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”
“Give yourself something to work toward, constantly.”
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
“Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.”
“The first step to becoming is to will it.”
“Never be afraid to say no.”
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
“Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”
“The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know what you want and believe you can have it.”
“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.”
“If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and every day you have the opportunity to write a new page.”
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
“What you set your heart upon surely shall be yours.”
“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
“Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.”
“We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.”
“A definite purpose is something you must create for yourself. No one else can select it for you, and it will not create itself. Desire is the factor that determines it.”
“The worth of life is not to be measured by results of achievement or success, but solely by the motives of the heart and the efforts of one’s will.”
“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.”
“The world makes way for the man who knows whither he is going.”
“Build castles in the air, that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
“Never lower your target; increase your actions.”
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.”
“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.”
“When you know what you want, and want it badly enough, you will find a way to get it.”
“It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.”
“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.”
“First, think. Second, dream. Third, believe. And finally, dare.”
“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.”
“A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.”
“We tend to get what we expect.”
“Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.”
“Discipline is remembering what you want.”
“Until a man selects a definite purpose, he scatters his energy and thoughts, which leads not to power but to indecision and weakness.”
“It concerns us to know the purpose we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.”
“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true”
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
“Become a person who would attract the results you seek.”
“Every intention sets energy into motion, whether you are aware of it or not.”
“Whatever you put attention to will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
“You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
“All great leaders base their leadership upon a definite purpose.”
“All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”
“Definite intentions get definite results!”
“The most important thing in the world is to know the kind of world you want to live in.”
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
“The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.”
“You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it…”
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act…”
“The more specific you are, the more granular you are, in the way you set your goals and in the way you follow through, the more successful you are.”
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
“Your expectations open or close the doors of your supply. If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.”
“When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.”
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
“Future intent influences and often determines present actions.”
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
“Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”
“If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.”
“High expectations are the key to everything”
“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”
“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
“Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.”
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”
“The soul that has no established aim loses itself.”
“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”
“Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.”
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I will give you a stock clerk.”
“Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane”
“Success is the attainment of your definite chief aim without violating the rights of other people.”
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you have imagined.”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
“Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.”
“Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.”
“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals, that is, goals that do not inspire them.”
“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”
“All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”
