Intention Quotes - Page 8

• Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. So as you become aware of yourself as a soul as well as a personality, the new understanding of power becomes aligning your personality with your soul, with the highest, most noble, most healthy part of yourself that you can imagine or reach for. The intentions of your soul are harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Healthy, Soul

  Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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

  Rob Bell

  Prayer, Yoga, Practice

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• State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention.

  Mallika Chopra

  Action, Achieve, States

  Interview with Amber Zuckswert, epicself.com. October 28, 2011.

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• What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act, we create [our] karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. The heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention that is planted like a seed. The result of the patterns of our karma is the fruit of these seeds.

  Jack Kornfield

  Karma, Heart, Garden

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.277, Random House

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• The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

  Shania Twain

  Life, Good Intentions, Hell

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• Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Attention, Manifestation, Universe

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• ... love always betrays its intentions.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Betray, Love Always

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hell, Bad Intentions

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• Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

  Amy Chan

  Integrity, Action, Good Intentions

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• Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

  Jack Kornfield

  Our Future, Seeds

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• No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Matter, Action, Brilliant

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• The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deception, Deceiving

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• Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Leadership, Believe

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Matter, Doe

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.81, Penguin

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• The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.

  Javad Nurbakhsh

  Moving, Mean, Compassion

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• Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that,
  where intention is sound, action is sound,
  and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt

  Al-Nawawi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sound

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• The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cheating, Cheated, Lays

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 118, 1678.

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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• The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

  Samuel Johnson

  Crowns, Half, Morality

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.349

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• There is no art when one does something without intention.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Art, Doe

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• You can manifest the life you truly want with clear intention, emotional intelligence and imagination...like it or not, your life is what you have chosen.

  Gregg Braden

  Motivational, Emotional, Imagination

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• It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Government

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• Become very clear about your intentions and desires, know that you deserve them, and then firmly put your foot down to the universe commanding these changes (while simultaneously surrendering control over how this will occur). All the doors will open for you as a result!

  Doreen Virtue

  Doors, Feet, Desire

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• The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events  into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?

  Gangaji

  Thinking, Ideas, Events

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• Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.

  Peter McWilliams

  Reality, Focus, Vision

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