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Quotes About Intentions

When they're exhausted and overwhelmed, they get Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply setting their intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.
~ Brene Brown
Permission slips aren't promissory notes, they are for stating and writing down intentions only, so there are no repercussions if you fail to deliver; however, they are useful for increasing accountability and the potential for support, and also for understanding where everyone in the room is coming from.
~ Brene Brown
I think it's also important to ask, "What need is driving this behavior?" and "Am I trying to reach, hurt, or connect with someone specifically, and is this the right way to do it?
~ Brene Brown
Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply setting their intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.
~ Brene Brown
Living into our values means that we do more than profess our values, we practice them. We walk our talk—we are clear about what we believe and hold important, and we take care that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviors align with those beliefs.
~ Brene Brown
DIG Deep = "get deliberate, inspired, & going" Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply by setting intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.
~ Brene Brown PhD LMSW
Good intentions that are not clothed in reason lead to greater disasters than those actions built on ill will or stupidity.
~ Henning Mankell
Through the generations there seems to run a chain of wounds and needs. And when we try to avoid inflicting wounds ourselves, we discover that even with our best intentions we cannot avoid encountering people who feel rejected, misunderstood, or hurt by us.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
~ Henry David Thoreau
if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I can't make out what you're up to . . . You strike me as having mysterious purposes — vast designs.
~ Henry James
Fanny Assingham had at this moment the sense as of a large heaped dish presented to her intelligence and inviting it to a feast-- so thick were the notes of intention in this remarkable speech.
~ Henry James
the high brutality of good intentions ...
~ Henry James
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
~ Aldous Huxley
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.
~ John Yoo
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
~ Colin Firth
You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
~ Harbhajan Singh
Colour me with you're intentions.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.
~ Kemi Sogunle
From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.
~ Dominic Savio
God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
~ Adrian Rogers
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.
~ T. S. Eliot