Intention Quotes

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.

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.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.

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

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

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

You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now.

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.

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

You do not grow stronger by accident - you grow stronger by intention.

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

When intention is supported by effort, success follows.

Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

Nick! Wait!” – Kyrian ‘Wait, my gluteus maximus. Vampire was shy of a few quarts of blood if he thought Nick had any intention of not going Casper on him.’ – Nick

My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot.

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.

Actually, Katniss isn’t complaining because she has no intention of staying with the “Star Squad,” but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan.

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.

I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.