Intention Without Action Quotes

#1. You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

Caroline Myss

#2. A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

George Washington

#3. So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.

Stephen Mitchell

#4. I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.

Ban Ki-moon

#5. Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

Thomas Aquinas

#7. To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.

Namkhai Norbu

#8. Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

Warren G. Bennis

#9. What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Pablo Picasso

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

Ilyas Kassam

#11. Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#12. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

Samuel Johnson

#13. If your intention is to give, you will not be concerned with how your actions are perceived.

Gary Zukav

#14. The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

#15. Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.

Ilyas Kassam

#16. If the blaming action produces a false apology, patronization of the moral code, and false promises with no intention of complying with moral law, it prevents satisfaction in the victim.

Karin Huffer

#17. This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

Jeremy Taylor

#18. We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action.

Debasish Mridha

#19. However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#20. Even small waves make it to shore. Use the potential you have through intention and action and enjoy your journey.

Tony Curl

#21. Life proceeds out of your intention. Your true intention is revealed by your actions, and your actions are determined by your true intention. As with everything in life (and life itself), it is a circle.

Neale Donald Walsch

#22. With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

Ilchi Lee

#23. Instead of crushing them and mixing them with water, she decided to take them one by one, because there is always a gap between intention and action, and she wanted to feel free to turn back halfway.

Paulo Coelho

#24. There is always a gap between intention and action..

Paulo Coelho

#25. To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

Suzy Kassem

#26. Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.

Gary Zukav

#27. It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

Joseph Addison

#28. So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

Surya Das

#29. Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth ... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will
namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

M. Scott Peck

#30. No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Donella Meadows

#31. When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

Pablo Picasso

#32. Every action has an impact; choose wisely the impact you want to have.

Mindy Hall

#33. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.

John Fowles

#34. There is only one way to make good on an intention, and that is to turn it into action.

A.W. Tozer

#35. If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.

Gerry Lopez

#36. An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Joseph Addison