Quotes About Intentions And Actions

#1. The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Bryant H. McGill

#2. Mindfulness is the continuous practice of touching deeply every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly present with your body and your mind, to bring harmony to your intentions and actions, and to be in harmony with those around you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. 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

#4. The gap between intentions and actions is character.

Orrin Woodward

#5. Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

Isabel Paterson

#6. Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.

Geoffrey Hill

#7. Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

William Whewell

#8. I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Barack Obama

#9. The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

Dean Spade

#10. Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Noam Chomsky

#11. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

E. Stanley Jones

#13. Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

John C. Maxwell

#14. Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

Hanif Kureishi

#15. We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.

Jayce O'Neal

#16. It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Kristin Hannah

#17. Your mind is ready and even eager to identify agents, assign them personality traits and specific intentions, and view their actions as expressing individual propensities. Here

Daniel Kahneman

#18. Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain's children: thy will be done. You have allowed men's hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#19. We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

Peter Julian Eymard

#20. A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs

Paul Newman

#21. Power is essentially amoral and one of the most important skills to acquire is the ability to see circumstances rather than good or evil. Power is a game - this cannot be repeated too often - and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effect of their actions.

Robert Greene

#22. Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.

Robert Greene

#23. Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense.

Steve Maraboli

#24. A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

Josh Charles

#25. Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.

Steve Maraboli

#26. Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorgan
but in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you do and they last longer

Venkat Gandhi

#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. We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.

Pema Chodron

#29. We take Jesus' actions, mix them with our assumptions, and produce advice for life that reflects more our opinions than his intentions.

Paul T. Penley

#30. Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day.

John G. Bennett

#31. What I am about to set forth is our system for gaining power over the people of the world. We have two things that will help us achieve this: we have ourselves, with our knowledge, intentions, scheming and actions, and we have the unawareness of the mass of the people.

Paul Bowden

#32. Intentions, whether good or bad, that don't reflect the words and actions are only meant to fulfill personal goals.

Ashish Patel

#33. We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

Confucius

#34. Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

E.F. Schumacher

#35. John 8:44 says Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He captures and conquers men's lives through his convincing lies, often nullifying good intentions with wrongful actions that seemed manly in the moment but in the end lacked the balancing power of clarity.

James MacDonald

#36. In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

Pope John Paul II

#37. Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.

Stephen Lovegrove

#38. If your words, actions and intentions are not genuine, I have no use for you or room for you in my life.

Tanya Masse

#39. Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.

Michael A. Stackpole

#40. Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.

Deepak Chopra

#41. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

Marcus Aurelius

#42. Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

Kedar Joshi