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Quotes About Intention

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination
~ Stephanie Dowrick
In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.
~ Donna Farhi
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man should be upright, not kept upright.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
~ Kate DiCamillo
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.
~ Abdul Kalam
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
~ Matt D. Miller
Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.
~ Frederick William Robertson
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
~ Alain de Botton
I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".
~ Gena Showalter
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us as His followers on this Earth.
~ Jonathan Cain
The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.
~ Brandon Mull, Sky Raiders
Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.
~ Turcois Ominek
Happiness comes from actions.
~ Debasish Mridha
Act to create beauty without expecting results.
~ Debasish Mridha
No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.
~ Henry Adams
If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.
~ Germany Kent
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
~ Elias Schwartz
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It's for their own good.
~ Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
Mirror sighed. I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen.
~ Michael Buckley
We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us.
~ Michael Chabon