Intentions Quotes

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

~ Criss Jami

Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Intentions of a man reflects in his actions.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

God is a witness to anything done in secret.

~ Lailah Gifty

You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.

~ Sunday Adelaja

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness.

~ Immanuel Kant

Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.

~ T.f. Hodge

Good intentions are the best business.

~ Debasish Mridha

Religion means life. Religion means true service in love to man and God. Religion means what ought to be understood within the confines of the laws of God. Religion means discipline. Religion means uplifting the falling. Religion means caring for they that suffer in latent and understanding why Christ came to die for us. Religion means development and expansion within the scope of the laws of God that safeguards life and protects the creations of the Creator. Religion means understanding what ought to be understood. Religion means understanding trials and why trials come our way, the tenacity to endure to the end and the rightful use of comfort to please God. Religion never means destroying lives. If we understand religion well, we shall know that religion means true love without bitterness. If we understand religion well, we shall know that religion means humility and a true submissive to the will of God. . If we understand religion well, we shall know that religion simply means dos and don’ts according to the scope, purpose and the will of God for our lives and not according to our own convictions and how we think things should be. Excessive religiosity is the root cause of contentions in religion.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Good intentions do not always suffice.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

~ Shannon L. Alder

How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.

~ Steve Maraboli

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.

~ Criss Jami

Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.

~ Orrin Woodward

Once your intentions are real and wise, helpful and positive, keep going forward. Never ever give up!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you don’t want to just live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You must be intentional and decisive about what you want to achieve during your solitude time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Make sure that you intentionally bring out results and positive products and the world will celebrate you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Do not recite words just to prove to yourself and others that you know and love God; for he already put his breath and light inside you. Instead, put truth in your every word and action, and always let your conscience steer and guide you.

~ Suzy Kassem

Do not get down on your knees to pray just to show God that you always remember him. Instead stay on your feet, and always do as he would do in place of him.

~ Suzy Kassem

And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.

~ Shanthi Sekaran

If you know who you are, this knowledge will attract people in all types of situation and circumstances to support your intentions and ideas

~ Sunday Adelaja

I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

~ K. Martin Beckner

Let your thoughts, intentions, imaginations, and dreams fly under a clear blue sky with a spring breeze floating like a butterfly from flower to flower. See the beauty of mankind. Enjoy the nectar of life. It will shift your awareness to a higher consciousness.

~ Debasish Mridha

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

~ Sanhita Baruah

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

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,’“ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.

~ Neil Gaiman

You have two options whether to speed up or block your soul’s intentions. You have a choice: to act out of selfish ego or as a loving soul.

~ Hina Hashmi

The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the ‘charge’ mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the ‘discharge’ mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If your intentions are good, nothing bad can happen.

~ Debasish Mridha

They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.

~ Anthony Liccione

Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

~ Suzy Kassem

When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. (Trompe le pied.)

~ Erik Pevernagie

If we pray we shall put an end to evil intentions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.

~ Unarine Ramaru

If God had good intentions, he would have rewarded the sex.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.

~ S.b. Redd