Top 100 Quotes About Intention
#1. You do not grow stronger by accident - you grow stronger by intention.
Rick Warren
#2. A good painter has two chief objects to paint: man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard. - Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1490)
Toby Lester
#3. The intention of Scripture is to exercise our faith, that we may know we are protected by God's hand, and that we may not be subject to harm from Satan and wicked men. . .
John Calvin
#4. A presence is made of the tiniest things. I sweep you up softly. You stayed too long. How is it you fly with every good intention.
Farrah Field
#5. I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Galileo Galilei
#6. What propels things into being is intention, attention, and strong emotion. If we are not careful, we can manifest things we are afraid of, because the Spirit World reads resistance the same way it reads desire. According to shamanic wisdom, what you resist is what you become.
Jose Luis Stevens
#7. Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Edmund Burke
#8. Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#9. Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.
Oprah Winfrey
#10. It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
Diana Ross
#11. I don't know, and have no intention of finding out. IQ is like dick size - if you have to measure, you're way too invested in it. And both are gauche to discuss in polite company. (Upon being asked his IQ on Quora)
Adrian Lamo
#12. I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band and not be about the solo pop guy. That was never me. All of the musicians that made me do what I wanted to do were bands. I didn't see it any other way.
Chris Daughtry
#13. Your dream is only possible through a clear intention and patience.
Bryant McGill
#14. Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.
Lester Wunderman
#15. She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey
Kayti Nika Raet
#16. The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed
Seneca The Younger
#17. If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.
Dawn Garcia
#18. A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.
Alex Blackwell
#19. O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
#20. Direction, not intention determines your destination.
Andy Stanley
#21. 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
#22. I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold
but not our brother-men
not even the best and kindest amongst them.
Anne Bronte
#23. Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen Hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#25. When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.
Patch Adams
#26. Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
Thomas A Kempis
#27. Let go of your ego's need to be right. When you're in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be right or be happy? When you choose the joyous, loving, spiritual mode, your connection to intention is strengthened.
Wayne Dyer
#28. The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#29. My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that,
Joseph Estrada
#30. Strong families are not an accident ... They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.
Julie B. Beck
#31. There's a word a friend of mine coined for that feeble gesture we make as if we're going to hold the door, when in reality we've got no intention of it. He calls it to elefain.
Geraldine Brooks
#32. The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.
Sharon Salzberg
#33. I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have written something more sensible, because now I have to dress up as a pirate for book signings ... I would have done a novel about a man who hangs around with a gaggle of models.
Gideon Defoe
#34. We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.
Heinrich Muller
#35. But make no mistake about it, Jordan. When the time is right and you're ready" - he trailed his forefinger along the edge of her palm and stilled when she shivered in response - "I have every intention of getting you into bed. And sleeping will have little to do with it.
Sara Humphreys
#36. My intention ... isn't to create controversy.
Brett Favre
#37. Now, my intention was to drink just enough to dull the senses, but intentions should never be mixed with alcohol.
Kirt J. Boyd
#38. It is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.
Heloise
#39. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones
#40. I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#41. Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.
Bram Stoker
#42. 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
#43. Our intention is to not only attract the hardcore jazz fan, but we're doing it in such a way that it will also be easy to take for those who are not necessarily steeped in the ways of jazz.
Ramsey Lewis
#44. Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.
Jamgon Kongtrul
#45. Blade," she murmured with a sweet, ingenuous gaze, sliding her arms around his neck in sensual welcome, "do you promise not to think too badly of me even if I like it?"
A smile curved his lips. "My lady," he replied huskily, "I have every intention of making sure you like it
exceedingly.
Gaelen Foley
#46. It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.
George Washington
#47. Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
Shirley Temple
#48. Fear keeps our energy, intention, and focus in this realm. Time and again, souls come through and acknowledge that letting go of their fear was the key to transitioning smoothly. 2.
Tyler Henry
#49. We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.
Saint Francis De Sales
#50. First partakers of love are always enveloped with the real intention
Sunday Adelaja
#51. Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.
Mehcad Brooks
#52. It wasn't my intention to love you that much. I did everything to show how much I care for you. But I guess, you didn't love me as much as I did. Even how hard I tried to hold you but you let me go. Urgh! That was painful. I still wait for you even it takes years.
Aser Alas Jr.
#53. It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings
John Maynard Keynes
#54. All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
Brenna Yovanoff
#56. Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief.
Dan Brown
#57. The power of intention manifests as an expression of expanding creativity, kindness, love, and beauty.
Wayne Dyer
#58. Lee stopped, looked north. I twas working almost like a plan. It was possible to see Intention in it ... he gave no further directions ... it had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.
Michael Shaara
#59. What is first?
Love or life?
Life or love?
Intention or emotions?
Emotions or intentions?
Debasish Mridha
#60. We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.
John Trudell
#61. greatly. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless.
Kate DiCamillo
#62. I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.
Gilbert Hernandez
#63. This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner sea, we observe our various movements as if they belonged to someone else, and yet we admire their involuntary excellence.
Muriel Barbery
#64. I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
Liev Schreiber
#65. If you express an intention, consider it the intention of God. How then could you doubt that it could be fulfilled?
Vadim Zeland
#66. 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
#67. Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.
Robin Sharma
#68. When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.
Richard House
#69. I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
Jodie Foster
#70. I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary intention. My intention is to make the best pictorial image I can.
Richard Billingham
#71. Is it not at least occasionally the case that we set out on a clear and simple mission and return with something undreamed of? Whether or not we accomplish our original intention becomes unimportant.
Lawrence Kushner
#72. No man is an island, no
woman lives in a vacuum,
and as much as we'd like
to compartmentalize, our
actions and decisions
affect those around us ... even if that's not our
intention.
Peter Adejimi
#73. 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
#74. We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.
John Wooden
#75. It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
#76. Force of Life
Defining the intention
of our heart's desire
we discover
the Force of Life
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#77. Just so you know, honey, if your intention is to give me better ... you're succeeding.
Kristen Ashley
#78. If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
Oswald Chambers
#79. I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.
Cameron Mathison
#80. I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.
Robert Benchley
#81. 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
#82. Birch fallacy is the assumption that you can infer subjective intention from objective consequence: we lost China to the Communists, therefore the President of the United States and the Secretary of State wished China to go to the Communists.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#83. Thanks, now I have a wet T-shirt."
I felt his smile on the back of my neck. "Perhaps that was my intention.
Colleen Houck
#84. 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
#85. We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
Peter Abelard
#86. The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.
Duane Elgin
#87. A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Sharon Salzberg
#89. 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
#90. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Kahlil Gibran
#91. I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
Carole Landis
#92. To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
Ariel Sharon
#93. We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods ... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
Terence McKenna
#94. I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best
Cristiano Ronaldo
#95. When your intention is clear, so is the way.
Alan Cohen
#96. When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.
Rush Limbaugh
#98. One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.
Laini Taylor
#99. By Genesis 6:5, we see that "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The fear of God was suppressed by man's thirst for the ungodly. How does Yahweh respond to this rebellion? He sends a flood.
Chris Poblete
#100. 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
