Intention quotes
410 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."
"No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism."
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."
"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."
"Everyone is curious about the intentions of their enemies."
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"Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works."
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions."
"The nature of what we're doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic. There's no way that you can make it happen by intention alone. It's something that you have to sort of allow it to happen, and you have to allow for it to happen."
"The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us."
"Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions."
"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions."
"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."
"Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home."
"Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier."
"I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention."
"INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL"
"Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free!"
"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."
"INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT"
"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."
"Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life."
"For every act of violence and messiness there are a million acts of kindness and goodness. It just depends where you look. And when I look around at virtually anyone or anything on the planet, I can see another face of intention - beauty."
"Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results."
"Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power."
"Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves."
