Quotes About Intention

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

Do not sit down and try to ATTRACT the thing you want to you; but begin to move toward the thing you want, and you will find it coming to meet you. Action and reaction are equal; and the person who steadily and purposefully moves forward with one thing in view becomes a center toward which the thing he seeks is drawn with irresistible power;

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

With this phrase he is insisting that his power is not grounded in the usual authority of empire; it is not an authority that comes out of the end of a gun or a cannon in coercive or violent ways. His kingdom, his claim to authority, is indeed "divine" in that it is rooted in and derived from "the will of the father," whose intention for the world is quite unlike the intent of Rome.

It is rather the conviction that God will not quit until God has arrived at God's good intention.

He wasn't such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.

Das Leben ist zu kostbar um es dem Zufall zu überlassen. - Deus X. Machina

Una llamada telefónica de la persona que "supuestamente" nos ama puede estar motivada por muchas cosas distintas al amor: una simple nostalgia pasajera, confirmar un chisme, sentimientos de pesar o de culpa.

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while—yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.5

Our intention creates our reality.

The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.

They will put that on my gravestone. 'Here lies Tinker, her heart was in the right place, but her foot was in her mouth and god knows where her brain went.

If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

Nothing nice you've ever done for someone is for no reason.

Everything is at its best when it's doing exactly what it was created for. A lamp gives light. An apple gives sustenance and refreshment. A chair is perfect in being exactly what it is--a chair.

A cornerstone of Jewish thought is that God created each of us to fulfill a specific purpose during life in this world. Each person is responsible for discovering and carrying out their divinely intended purpose.

Don't make me guess your intentions, I might conclude it's your intention to leave me clueless and frustrated

The mask hides the face, but the attitude reveals the intention of the soul."

We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities (such as a sequence of six girls) appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone's intention.

The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to happen.

perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.

The perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.