Quotes About Intention

Conscience is the true power. It resides within us. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world.

You can think of your life as being a little like knitting. When you first begin, there is no shape to it, but you keep knitting with some goal in mind—to make a sweater, a sock, or whatever. Every stitch is like a thought that you add to the overall shape of your life. Eventually, thoughts lead to action and the form will emerge, if you can only keep your intent in mind. If you have no clear vision, however, you will end up with a random pile of knotted yarn

When you choose, it will happen.

Thoughts you feel as you act are living thoughts. Thoughts you think while you don't act are dead thoughts.

There is… only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

Envisioning without action, is the equivalent of praying without faith.

Honour, not honours.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves

sólo intentaba hacer bien lo que le parecía bien hacer,

your purchases and gadgets suggest elaborate and fanciful recipes, at least in your intentions

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

No solo hemos de ser cristianos de nombre y tener conocimiento, tenemos que tener también carácter cristiano. Tenemos que ser santos en la tierra, si es que tenemos la intención de ser santos en el cielo

As Jesus dealt with sin's cause rather than effect, so the spiritual leader should adopt the same method in prayer.

According to that fundamental principle, language is truthful, not when the meaning attached to the words by the speaker, but when the meaning intended to be produced in the mind of the particular person addressed, is in accordance with the facts.

Gradually, moment by moment, you may have come to realize that although you can't stop the unsettling thoughts from arising in your mind, you can stop what happens next. You can stop the vicious circle from feeding off itself.

The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

A man always has two reasons for what he doesa good one, and the real one.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.