Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
There are two components to biological information in the body, one is intention, the other is attention.
Where intention goes, energy flows.
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously. . . and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.
Feeling good is the primary intention
Anything created with fake intention or pretense cannot last long.
That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.
Quality … has to do with intention.
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire. . . and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.
Success is clarity of my intention. . . . and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.
[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect
It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.
Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.
I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr. , A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole. ]