Set Intention Quotes

#1. Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.

Gertrude Atherton

#2. Ian did, with a blackened eye, skinned knuckles, and the terse report that Manfred had declared a set intention of going off and hanging himself, and good riddance to the fornicating son of a bitch, and might his rotten bowels gush forth like Judas Iscariot's, the traitorous, stinking wee turd.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. I've set the intention that all who ask to receive attunements from me receive them perfectly and instantly the moment they call them in regardless if the attunement is prepared in the past, present or future and regardless of who the recipient is.

Chris Comish

#4. 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

#5. The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and your intention
and then you will overcome everything. You will put to shame all your pride and your demon! You will win, you will attain freedom ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

Rob Bell

#8. 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

#9. The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

Odilon Redon

#10. I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

Will Packer

#11. Be careful when you set intentions; they just might manifest.

Russell Eric Dobda

#12. There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

David Hume

#13. It is then, when we have set our intention to align our will with God's will, feeling, believing, and knowing our loving connection with all that is, that we can open up our intuition to our full potential.

Catherine Carrigan

#14. Focus your intention on your dreams, you can wave magic when you set your heart and mind to it

Miranda Kerr

#15. As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

Claire Messud

#16. I have set foot in that region of life where it is not possible to go with any more intention of returning

Dante Alighieri

#17. When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.

Sharon Salzberg

#18. INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. To communicate intuitively to an animal, the simplest way to begin is to set your intention for your soul to communicate with the animal's soul.

Catherine Carrigan

#20. She set the tray down on the table in the sitting area
which instantly perked up Galahad's ears.
Roarke simply pointed a warning finger that had the cat shooting up a leg to wash as if a morning ablution had been his only intention.

J.D. Robb

#21. There's no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.

Iyanla Vanzant

#23. When you set an intention, you can create transformation.

Ava Dellaira

#24. That time is not a limiter. Set a strong intention, and the time will present itself.

Russell Eric Dobda

#25. Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning ... set your intention every day ... if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

#26. Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.

Brendon Burchard

#27. Realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.

Walter Kirn

#28. Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning - set your intention every day.

Oprah Winfrey

#29. Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Jonny Lang

#30. It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again? Really? I never set out with that intention.'

Stephen Merchant

#31. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.

Deepak Chopra