@ZethaPondererI think there's a missing piece there, especially since actions (or results) can occur without intent, from what I understand of it. Like, lack of awareness being the result of an accident seems to be devoid of intent on the part of the person, but, it still comes from who/what/how they are. I think this is separate from intent.
Personally, I see it more like this. Actions speak the loudest, sure, but they can also be very telling of the person in general; often, actions arise from people's habits, how they understand/instinctively interact with the world, and judging people on them has some basis because it judges them based on how they've carried themselves and built themselves into being. A person who is terrible at complimenting people is someone who's probably not put a ton into practicing it, and someone who comes off as rude or insensitive is probably someone who either doesn't show a strong value for empathy/pleasantry in interacting with people, or hasn't put enough effort/time into developing it yet. I don't think there's a solid dismissal of actions for being "just how we are," since so much of how we act, think, or behave in general is the product of environment, habit, and our own self-guided development as people. The person who dismisses their own faults/strengths as "just how they are" kinda misses how much control we have over ourselves.
MEANWHILE. Intention seems to be the truest picture of who we are, in my mind. It's also the thing we can never truly see as outsiders, just as we will never 100% understand the person we're considering. I tend to hold people more to their intentions rather than their actions, as quite often, you get bad actions from good/neutral intentions, where actions are only bad because the person acting them out doesn't understand something or another. Additionally, actions tend to be judged from the perspective of what result they have, while they're committed based on a prediction or evaluation. And, this prediction/evaluation, the true core of actions from the actor side, are guided by intent. So, you're a lot closer to judging the person themselves if you go by intent.
So yeah. I think intentions matter a lot more if you're judging people for who they are, but actions can still be telling of who they've been or how they've taken charge of their life. But, I do think it's possible for some actions/results to occur without intent, but that depends on where you're drawing the line. Someone takes a step forward with intent, however small, but someone trips without intent. That lack of awareness is habit if nothing else, but more likely situational--an "action" attributed to them when their intent did not include or effect it in isolation.