Quotes About Intention And Action

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Tony Curl

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

Gerry Lopez

#4. Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

Stephanie Dowrick

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Zachary Quinto

#9. Have an intention, take action, and then learn on the way to success.

Debasish Mridha

#10. I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

Zachary Quinto

#11. How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

#12. Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.

Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris

Rene Descartes

#13. Before you act, find your center. Ground yourself in Spirit. Set ego aside. Ask yourself, "How do I want to be about this? What would love do?" Then do that. With good intention and inspired action, good results follow. It's karma.

Annette Vaillancourt

#14. Our interexistence assures that there is an effect for every intention, action, decision and word. For good or for evil, the people we are in both private and in public, take on life or death and collectively create the world we live in.

Mac MacKenzie

#15. Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world.

Russell Eric Dobda

#16. In today's roller-coaster economy, hyper-competitive, fear-based, flat and global world, convincing anyone to do anything at any time requires getting their attention, creating their intention and turning it to action.

Peter Guber

#17. She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey

Kayti Nika Raet

#18. 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

#19. Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that,
where intention is sound, action is sound,
and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt

Al-Nawawi

#20. Love is an act of will, both an intention and an action. "Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth" (1 John 3:18). ~Jason Versey

Jason Versey

#21. Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

Henna Inam

#22. 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

#23. He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.

Vladimir Nabokov

#24. EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will

Eliphas Levi

#25. Beware of condemning any man's action. Consider your neighbor's intention, which is often honest and innocent, even though his act seems bad in outward appearance. - St. Ignatius Loyola

James Martin

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

Joseph Addison

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

A.W. Tozer

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

Stephen Mitchell

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Abdullah Ibn Mubarak