Intent Quotes

How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.

~ Steve Maraboli

If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.

~ Steve Maraboli

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

~ Steve Maraboli

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

~ Sándor Márai

You got it all wrong in your way of thinking.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

~ Deborah Day

The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind, it gives you what you demand with your actions.

~ Steve Maraboli

Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there!

~ Steve Maraboli

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.

~ Steve Maraboli

Live your vision and demand your success.

~ Steve Maraboli

While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.

~ Steve Maraboli

You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.

~ Steve Maraboli

Let today be the day you stop having conflict between your actions and your goals and finally align your greatest intent with your purposeful actions, creating a universal symphony serenading your success!

~ Steve Maraboli

Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.

~ Steve Maraboli

Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal.

~ Steve Maraboli

Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!

~ K.l. Toth

Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if…You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day…You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.

~ Steve Maraboli

The best way to succeed is to have a specific Intent, a clear Vision, a plan of Action, and the ability to maintain Clarity. Those are the Four Pillars of Success. It never fails!

~ Steve Maraboli

If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

~ Suzy Kassem

Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept, it is the purest intent of our design. Be you. Be free. Be nice.

~ Steve Maraboli

It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know. Sorcery is a state of awareness.

~ Carlos Castañeda

Truth can only be found in a person's record of actions, not their list of intentions.

~ Suzy Kassem

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

~ Suzy Kassem

Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances are without inner-intent and you are with inner-intent. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One feels exhausted going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the inner-intent that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there; that is why!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If they do not remain in unison, you should maintain the intent of ‘I want to keep them in unison’; then some day it will come into fruition if this resolve is there.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There are two types of spiritual practices. One spiritual practice is done to attain the final goal (experience of pure Soul) and the other type of spiritual practice is done for the sake of doing the spiritual practice. The practice that is performed with the intent of attaining the final goal is the last, final type of spiritual practice.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

~ L. David Marquet

Success is a process, not an event.

~ Richie Norton

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.

~ Richie Norton

Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you become angry with someone today, it is a discharge kashaya (karma effect of anger-pride-deceit-greed). But in that [discharge karma] your intent is for it, which “charges” a [new] karmic seed.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If the outside [our outside circumstances] has become spoilt so be it, don’t let the inside [our inner intent] spoil. If you don’t have the money to pay off your debt, keep the intent pure within that you want to pay it off. Because you did not let the inner intent spoil, the time to pay off the debt will come.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means “Our Own Self” did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.

~ Dada Bhagwan