Best 544 quotes in «intention quotes» category

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.

Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

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.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

The big challenge is finding something new without changing completely what you've already done - going deeper into what you've already done and discovering new things while carrying out the same intention.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The most effective medium is yourself and the power you communicate by your intention and your story.

The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.

The power of intention is a critical factor in all areas of life. Simply by intending to create synchronicity in your life, you can nurture that result.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

The power of an intention multiplies, depending upon how many people are thinking the same thought at the same time.

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

There is always a gap between intention and action.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.

The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

There's so many ups and downs, and there's so many pieces to trying to build a business, and if the intention isn't very, very clear and the business isn't reflecting that intention, then it makes it much harder.

The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.